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Pisidia and the Lycaonian Frontier1

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1. The frontier of Pisidia, where it adjoins Lycaonia, is placed wrongly in my Histor. Geogr. Chs. Q and V. The district was little known, when I wrote: I had traversed it hurriedly in 1882, 1886, and 1890, in each case only on a single hasty route. The excursion of 1882 resulted in placing Anaboura and Neapolis. No name was discovered in the excursions of 1886 and 1890. Prof. Sterrett explored the district very carefully in 1884 and 1885; but the numerous inscriptions, which he found, unluckily did not contain important topographical indications, and he assigned a position much too far north for the city of Pappa-Tiberiopolis. I shared his view on this critical point, with the result that many other towns were drawn away far north of their true situation, because they stood in some relation to Pappa, and when it seemed to lie away in the north, they had to be placed correspondingly. For the same reason, the Pamphylian frontier was drawn too far north.

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page 243 note 2 Mittheil. d. Inst. Athen. 1883, p. 71 ff.

page 243 note 3 Wolfe Expedition, p. 196, Epigr. Expedition, p. 177, two works full of rich material.

page 244 note 1 Franz, Fünf Inschr. u. fünf Städte Kleinasiens, with Kiepert's topographical discussion and restoration of Ptolemy's map appended.

page 244 note 2 Cronin i. p. 101.

page 245 note 1 In Not. vii. Sozopolis Apameia come together through the loss of Atenia: Limnai Neapolis for a similar reason. The only case of three consecutive names in topographical order is Adada Zorzila Timbrias: it will be shown below why in this one case topographical order rules.

page 245 note 2 The order in Lycaonia and Isauria is topographical, and easily traced under the obscuring dislocation of parts.

page 246 note 1 Not. viii. omits Nos. 21, 22: Not. ix. omits No. 10 Limnai: Not. vii. agrees exactly with viii. but omits No. 5, and thus obscures the order at the start. All these omissions are purely errors in one identical list, arranged perhaps by Justinian, and left unchanged, except as regards Archbishoprics, until the revision by Leo VI.

page 246 note 2 See footnote 1 p. 245.

page 246 note 3 Parlais, which Hierocles omits, belongs to Region I.

page 246 note 4 Tityassos does not appear, because probably under Parlais at the time when this order was instituted: see Section 18.

page 247 note 1 Cit. and Bish. i. p. 316.

page 247 note 2 Kaibel reads Μανθίωι, and takes Magnes as a personal name. The river Anthius is mentioned on coins. This interpretation is given on p. 201 of the Introduction to my Historical Commentary on Epistle to Galatians, where a fuller account of Antioch is published.

page 248 note 1 Strabo, p. 577.

page 248 note 2 Kern, lnschr. v. Magnesia, No. 61.

page 248 note 3 Sterrett, , Epigr. Journey, p. 122, No. 93 B.Google Scholar The inscription is said to be badly defaced and the text of the line following this cannot be recovered from the copy.

page 248 note 4 Sterrett, Epigr. Journ. p. 122, No. 93 AGoogle Scholar, who wrongly alters his own correct copy and reads [λ]εγεωνάριον Compare Hirschfeld, O. in Berl. Akad. Sitzungsber., 1891, p. 864.Google Scholar

page 248 note 5 Quoted from Menolog. Sirletianum in Act. Sanct. 28 Sept. p. 563: Galaciae is the printed reading, a mistake for Galaticae. It comes from some old authority.

page 249 note 1 Histor. Geogr. p. 172. I add this reference, as I was blamed for not having given Hirschfeld credit for this, one of his best discoveries: my critic looked at one page or so in a large book full of details, and not finding there the acknowledgment, assumed that it was nowhere.

page 249 note 2 The epithet is not attested for the Goddess here, but I gather it from the hermit described in Section 6.

page 249 note 3 I take this opportunity of correcting my old paper in Amer. Journ. Arch. ii. p. 123 ff., about this battle. The correction is made in Cit. and Bish. i. p. 346, and map to ii.

page 249 note 4 I still hold this view, in spite of the doubts of Ziebarth, Vereinswesen, p. 67Google Scholar. His objection that τέκμωρ was an old poetic word long dead in the language was answered before he made it in Histor. Geogr. p. 411, cp. J.H.S. 1883, p. 36. The artificial Greek of this country, being learned from books, used old poetic words.

page 249 note 5 Isba = Isoua-Esoua: cp. Lagbe-Lagoue-Lagoe, Amer. Journ. Arch. iv., p. 16.

page 249 ntoe 6 I owe this apt quotation to Mr Arkwright.

page 250 note 1 Compare e.g. Cit. and Bish. ii. p. 471, No. 310, C.I.G. 2686. The identification of Algounia (Section 9) also disproves Hirschfeld's interpretation.

page 250 note 2 Piliganon can hardly be connected with Mt. Pelekas in the Phrygo-Bithynian frontier land (Polybius v. 77: Anna Comnena often mentions a village Pelekanon on the north-east edge of this mountain, showing that it is a ridge, extending south-west from Olympus to the Rhyndakos and Makestos).

page 250 note 3 Acta Pauli et Theclae, § 2.

page 250 note 4 Histor. Geogr. p. 390: Ritter, , Kleinasien, ii. p. 461.Google Scholar

page 250 note 5 Before the ecclesiastical re-organization by Leo VI., about 900; for its archbishop was at the Concil. Const. 869. Neapolis is a simple bishopric of Pisidia in all the older Notitiae, vii., viii., ix. of Parthey, as well as De Boor's Notitia of the Iconoclastic period (eighth century). The identification of the archbishopric with the Pisidian Neapolis is stated in Not. i. alone.

page 251 note 1 It is published, Cronin, i. p. 108: the person honoured belonged to the valley of Anaboura and Neapolis, cp. Sterrett, , Wolfe Exped. Nos. 328, 329.Google Scholar

page 251 note 2 The name Limnai is G. Hirschfeld's discovery, Section 4.

page 251 note 3 See a paper on the Permanent Attachment of Religious Veneration to Localities in Asia Minor, published in Transactions of Oriental Congress of London, 1892.

page 252 note 1 It is a lofty ridge, Ak-Dagh (wrongly divided into two parallel little ridges by H. Kiepert, who gave a false shape to the Limnai here): it may be Olympus (see next paragraph), and Ghaziri under it Olympokome.

page 252 note 2 ΔΑΡΗ is the reading in my copy, with the note that the surface is injured, and that Β is equally possible with Ρ. I noticed this in 1882, and revised it on the stone in 1886. Prof. Sterrett's copy had Ρ simply, 1885.

page 253 note 1 A roughly squared pedestal from which springs a round pillar tapering slightly: the total height is fully six feet. All such stones known to me are early. A terminus, a square pillar standing on a separate round basis, dated 135 A.D., Histor. Geogr. p. 172.

page 253 note 2 Amer. Journ. of Arch. i. p. 146.

page 254 note 1 Ptolemy, v. 4, where ᾿Ορονδικὸν ἔθνος should be read.

page 254 note 2 Polybius has only ᾿Οροανδεῖς Livy Oroanda: Pliny, v. 24 oppida Oroanda, Sagalessos: Part of Taurus was called Oroandes, Pliny, v. 27 (98).

page 254 note 3 With Oroandês-Oroanda compare many similar pairs, Kidramouas-Kidramos, &c. See Section 13 and Mitth. Inst. Athen. 1883, p. 74.

page 255 note 1 In Ovid, , Met. viii. 719 read Tyrieius, cp. 621.Google Scholar

page 255 note 2 Mr Cronin and my wife and I explored it in 1901. Dr Jüthner, who calls it Eüktö, saw it in 1902; and he will I think find it marked in the sketch map which I sent him before his journey. Assar-Kalesi was explored at the same time by Mr Wathen and my son.

page 255 note 3 Mittheil. Inst. Athen. 1888, p. 233, repeated in Histor. Geogr. 400.

page 256 note 1 Add to p. 316 that Pisidike in Polyb. 22, 5, 14, is not a synonym for Pisidia, but means the enlarged Pisidia = Pisidian Phrygia of Ptol. v. 5, 4 (where Πισιδίας has been transposed to follow Σελεύκεια, the Latin Pisidiae Phrygiae is right): Φρυγίαν τῆν ἐφ᾿ ῾Ελλησπο.ντου καὶ τὴν Πισιδικήν

page 256 note 2 Supposing that the form Θευδοσιούπολις was corrupted to Εὐδοξιούπολις

page 256 note 3 Baris means wall or tower (Hesychius): ‘a construction’ is evidently the fundamental sense of the word: is it Pisidian ?

page 256 note 4 Gelzer rightly admits this as a possible explanation.

page 256 note 5 Parts of words are often lost in the lists: thus at Concil. Const. 536, in one case Theopolis is mentioned, but other passages prove that Theodosiopolis is meant. Thampsii (for Themisonii) in some lists appears as Thampsioupolis in others. On Θευ- for Θεο-, see Cit. and Bish. ii. p. 737. -δοσ- transposed to -σοδ- is a common error: cp. Academius of Pappa corrupted to Acumedius, in Concil. Nicaen. Acta: see p. 272.Google Scholar

page 257 note 1 The order becomes all the clearer, when Timbrias is recognized as misplaced.

page 258 note 1 The nomen is lost, but M. Doublet's restoration Μαᾶρκον[᾿Αντώνιον Μαάρκου υίόν] ταμίαν καὶ ἀντιστράτηγον is almost certainly right, as the praenomen, title, and style agree. Homolle, M. published it without restoration, B.C.H. 1884, p. 131Google Scholar, but specified the date as above.

page 258 note 2 I have described them in the Athenæum, 1886, p. 38 (Jan. 2).

page 259 note 1 See his Vorläufige Reisebericht in Berl. Monatsberichte, 1879, p. 301.

page 259 note 2 This suggestion was adopted at once by Mr Anderson, and incorporated in his excellent map of ancient Asia Minor (published by Murray, London). Probably the false form Malek is due to popular etymology seeking a meaning (Arab Maliku, king).

page 259 note 3 Cit. and Bish. i. pp. 316–328: Amer. Journ. Arch. 1888, pp. 6 ff., 264 ff.

page 260 note 1 Kleinas. Münzen, ii. p. 385.

page 261 note 1 Mr Hogarth was with me. Mr Headlam was inspecting Uzumla-Monastir, which he reported to be unimportant and not worth a visit.

page 261 note 2 See Section 18.

page 261 note 3 I have pointed out in Christ Born in Bethlehem, p. 230 ff., that the Pisidian Coloniae belong to the period when the Homonades were conquered by Sulpicius Quirinius, probably in 8–6 B.C. (not in 3–1 B.C., as Mommsen says). They were part of the plan of operations, and the date 6 B.C. shows how vigorously operations were carried out.

page 262 note 1 On this see below.

page 262 note 2 I believe that Askara was situated at Ueskeles: see Section 5, above.

page 262 note 3 Imhoof-Blumer, , Kleinas. Münzen, ii. p. 420.Google Scholar

page 263 note 1 I think I was told in 1886 about the fishing; but I cannot guarantee the accuracy of the statement.

page 263 note 2 It may be only the chance of a common name, yet it is worth noting that the name Diomedes occurs on coins of Parlais (Imhoof, Kleinas. Münzen, ii. p. 420Google Scholar), and Diomedes Aug. dispensator on one of those inscriptions. The Latin inscriptions are on the common stone of the district: one Greek inscription is on marble, the other (Sterrett, No. 310) perished in a burning house shortly before we visited Bademli in 1890.

page 263 note 3 Academius 325 is given by Lequien as bishop of Parlais: he was bishop of Pappa (Papa). Athanasius Paralii in Concil. Ephes. 431 was Egyptian.

page 264 note 1 The name, therefore, was Agroi, if we can trust the Concil., not Agrai (Hirschfeld, G. and Histor. Geogr. p. 406Google Scholar). But the text of the Acta Concil. is often bad in regard to proper names. The modern form Aghras is consistent equally with ᾿Αγρούς and ᾿Αγράς

page 264 note 2 On Apollonia, Histor. Geogr. p. 400Google Scholar, on Minassos (which must have gone along with Baris), p. 406.

page 264 note 3 Histor. Geogr. pp. 332–3: Influence of geographical features on history in Asia Minor (Geograph. Journal, Sept. 1902, p. 261).

page 264 note 4 Both dates are only approximate.

page 264 note 5 Lequien probably errs in taking Tiberius as bishop of Lystra in 325: he was bishop of Ilistra: the difference is a delicate one, where spelling is so uncertain, but a consideration of all the variants points clearly to Ilistra.

page 265 note 1 Hill, , Brit. Mus. Catalogue, Lycaonia, &c, p. 31.Google Scholar

page 265 note 2 On the spelling Histor. Geogr. p. 417.

page 265 note 3 On the high value of the Latin rendering in some cases see Talbonda in Section II, ante.

page 265 note 4 Imhoof, , Kleinas. Münzen, ii. p. 355Google Scholar, prefers the interpretation Φιλό(ξενος?) ᾿Αρτεμ (ιδώρου?) or similar names (like Diomedes on coins of Parlais); but I cannot think this so probable.

page 266 note 1 Gelzer's view that Theodorus Vasadensis is erroneously given in Isauria, Act. Conc. Nicaen., and should be placed in Pisidia, can hardly be right. If Isaura was the metropolis of Prov. Isauria, its authority can hardly have stopped short of Vasada: see also Section 22.

page 266 note 2 The order in Anon. Rav p. 103, Pappa, Misthia, Antiochia, furnishes no trustworthy evidence that Misthia was on the road Pappa-Antiochia. That road lay entirely in Byzantine Pisidia, but Misthia was in Byzantine Lycaonia.

page 266 note 3 See Section 19.

page 267 note 1 He was metropolitanus in Isauro (a phrase in Concil. Nicaen. which is often misunderstood). Seleuceia, previously a bishopric under Isaura, became metropolis of Isauria in 371.

page 267 note 2 The Benedictine editors in a good note draw this inference, and conceive the situation as we do, though topographical ignorance affects their account.

page 268 note 1 The suggestion there made that Bidana was Leontopolis is rejected in my paper on Lycaonia.

page 268 ntoe 2 See Hamilton, Discov. in Asia Minor, ii. p. 338.Google Scholar

page 268 note 3 The same error of using stadia for miles is pointed out in Histor. Geogr. pp. 190, 251, 258.

page 268 note 4 Basil, archbishop of Misthia, was present at the council held in that year.

page 269 note 1 μέχρι τῶν προσβόρ᾿ῥων πλευρῶν (i.e. τοῦ Ταύρου) τῶν περὶ ᾿´Ισαυρα καὶ τοὺς ῾Ομοναδέας μέχρι τῆς Πισιδίας

page 269 note 2 Hence μέχρι in the preceding note is used in two senses, it includes the Homonades and excludes Pisidia and Isaura.

page 269 note 3 This term includes the district of Antioch and Apollonia (and perhaps also the valleys of the Limnai and Karalis, though elsewhere Strabo regards them as Pisidian).

page 269 note 4 Συναφεῖς δ᾿ εἰσὶ τούτοις οἴ τε ἄλλοι Πισίδαι καὶ οἱ Σελγεῖς Kotenna again adjoined both the elgeis and the Homonades: Strabo, pp. 569, 570.

page 270 note 1 Probably a dislocation has put here some of the queried names and eliminated Elenna: Kassai was perhaps near Karallia, Section 19, also near Serna-Semnea, (Histor. Geogr. p. 417).Google Scholar Lyrbe perhaps is the site marked Seleucia by R. Kiepert. Those who have not studied the problems of Anatolian topography will accuse me of using ‘dislocations’ too freely; but it is plain that dislocation has occurred in most of the lists.

page 270 note 2 Also Syedra (Steph. Byz.). Theodora Syedrissa buried her husband, an Isaurian, at Olympus in Lycia (Heberdey-Kalinka, , Zwei Reisen in S. W. Kleinasien p. 34Google Scholar).

page 270 note 3 Acta Nestoris (Feb. 26), the oldest form, published Rev. Arch. 1884 i. p. 225, where perhaps Φρυγίας ἁπάσης (a manifest falsehood) is a corruption of Φρυγίας Πισιδίας

page 271 note 1 Often those new names were really old Anatolian towns, which had long been kept down by the Graeco-Roman cities, and regained the upper hand as Hellenism died and Orientalism revived in Asia Minor: Histor. Geogr. pp. 25, 87. In Conc. Const. 381 some local names are found, e.g. Passala for Derbe; actual facts were more truly given in the Concilia than in the Notitiae.

page 272 note 1 Ecclesiae Occ. Monumenta iuris antiquissima, Fasc. i., Oxford, 1899, p. 71.

page 272 note 2 It contains enough to show the case clearly when explained, but not to enable me to discover it.

page 272 note 3 Corrupted Panon, Papho, Cariae, Popa, Paro, &c., implying original Latin Paporum from Greek Πάπων (spelling due to local pronunciation Pâpa, not Pappa).

page 272 note 4 Or perhaps Paponi[ensis]: other MSS. show variants, murtinensis, piopaporum, piaporum: from which Mr Turner elicits Murtinensis Paporum (so Gelzer also). The forms in the Latin Acta of the Councils were often inferred very ignorantly from the Greek original genitives, e.g. ὁ Πασσάλων at Concil. Const, 381 was made into Passalonensis for Passalensis.

page 272 note 5 But see footnote 1 on p. 273.

page 272 note 6 (Sillyon), Gilsatenus, Pellensis, , Codri, , occur in Epist. Pamph. Prov. ad Leonem, 458Google Scholar: Senna, , Serna, , Semnea, , Sesennia, (Histor. Geogr. p. 417)Google Scholar: Geonensis, (Lagina), Gelzer, Bys. Zft. 1903, p. 129 f.Google Scholar

page 273 note 1 Σύμναδα (corrupted Sumneta) in Act. Conc. Nicaen.: Subrada (which Pinder and Parthey take for Savatra) in Anon. Rav. p. 103, in a group of Pisidian and Pamphylian cities (being on a great Roman road, it is to be expected in the Anon.).

page 273 note 2 This article, often quoted in the preceding pages, will be published in Jahreshefte d. Oesterr. Inst. 1904, Beiblatt.