Rivers

I know that rivers are not buildings, however, the rivers personified on coins are similarly represented in glyptic art. The likeness in composition is so close that I am happy to include them here.

Personifications of rivers and water bodies are recognisable, assuming there is no name, by the nature of their repose. They are most often depicted reclining, often with other attributes like ship prows, flowing urns and riverine biota, such as reeds or wading birds. An exception is the Orontes where we see a small swimming figure below a seated figure, often in an arched shrine. Rivers can be seen as both male and female personifications.

RHINE

TIBER

SEA OF MARMARIS

ISTROS

DANUBE AND EUPHRATES

MARSYAS

The river Marsyas is a tributary mountain torrent of the Maeander.

In Greek mythology Marsyas was a satyr. In a contest between Apollo and Marsyas, judged by the Muses, to make music Marsyas played his flute, putting everyone there into a frenzy, and they started dancing wildly. When it was Apollo's turn, he played his lyre so beautifully that everyone was still and had tears in their eyes. The match ended in a draw. As the loser he was flayed alive in a cave near Celaenae for his hubris to challenge a god. His brothers, nymphs, gods and goddesses mourned his death, and their tears, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses, were the source of the river Marsyas in Phrygia, which joins the Meander near Celaenae.

KAYSTROS

Küçük Menderes ("Little Meander"), or Kaystros River (Ancient Greek: Κάϋστρος) is south of İzmir, Turkey. It generally flows westward and arrive into the Aegean Sea at Pamucak beach, near Selçuk, İzmir. The ancient city of Ephesus was once an important port on the river, but over the centuries, sedimentation gradually filled in the inlet around the city. The ancient port of Panormus was near its mouth.

EUPHRATES

ORONTES

NILE

The river Nile is the longest river in the world. It has two major tributaries, the White Nile and Blue Nile. It flows north in Africa, through Sudan and Egypt into the Mediterranean via a large delta. Egyptian civilization and Sudanese kingdoms have depended on the river since ancient times. Most of the population and cities of Egypt lie along those parts of the Nile valley north of Aswan, and nearly all the cultural and historical sites of Ancient Egypt are found along riverbanks.