Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (3.1884-1885)

THE

WOLFE EXPEDITION TO ASIA MINOR.

When, in the spring of 1885, the Wolfe Expedition to Babylonia
reached Beirut, the terminus of its long and fruitful wanderings, it
was found that a generous gift of Miss Wolfe had made it possible
for the writer to undertake another epigraphical and geographical
journey into Asia Minor.

The preliminary arrangements having been completed at Mersina,
the flourishing seaport of Tarsus, I was finally enabled to set out
upon the journey May 18, 1885.

Knowing that certain archaeologists1 had traversed the region be-
tween Tarsus and Seleucia on the Calycadnus only a few years ago,
I did not think it necessary to search the country from an epigraphi-
cal standpoint, and thus I was led to regard Lamas, the ancient
Lamos, as the starting-point of my journey.

On May 19 Lamas was reached. The village is from one and a
half to two miles inland, north of the Lamas Kalesi; it is on the
right bank of the river, and is situated at the mouth of the huge
gorge down which the Lamas Su comes. The village is small and
insignificant, as also, despite some pretentious remains, must have
been the Lamos of antiquity, if one may draw conclusions with safety
from the size of the little valley and the rocky mountains which sur-
round it.

May 20. Lamas to Orenkieui, 8 h. 46 m. We left Lamas on the
road to Mara and Oluk, travelling north of west. The road ascends
steadily in zigzags, and is exceedingly rough. In one hour we reach
the top of a ridge; on our right is an immense gorge with perpen-

Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique, 1877, p. 375, etc.