NICEPH. - Nicephorium, - A city of Mesopotamia, situate near Edessa, according to Pliny, who states it to have been founded in the neighbourhood of the Euphrates, by order of Alexander the Great, on account of the advantages of its locality. In it was the temple of Jupiter Nicephorus, whence, as Spartianus relates, an oracle announced the destination of Hadrian to the empire. - Banduri (i. p. 205), in a note on a Greek second brass of Gallienus, quotes, on the authority of Mediobarbus, a colonial coin of that prize as bearing on its reverse COLONIA NICEPH. CONS. or COND. - But no such coin is to be found in Vaillant. - And Greek imperial of Gordianus Pius and Gallienus are all that M. Hennin, under the head of Nicephorium, recognizes in the nomenclature of his Manual. - vol. 2. p. 293.