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

THE WOLFE EXPEDITION

'AvvCa HavXa dvydr-qp

QpovTOivos fiovkev-

tov 'icravpaiv Ka[l Kpa-]

TLCTTOV <PpOVTCOVL

via) trftravTi in)

p.v(ijp.r)<;) yiapiv).

Upon the evidence of this inscription 1 should like to locate
Isaura Nova here. In the inscriptions of Palaca Isaura (Nos. 180
to 183) the ethnic is always used (ISAYPEQN), but in this inscrip-
tion the name of the town itself (ISAYPA) is used. Or else the
name has been rewritten into Greek from the Latin Isauri(-orum).

The manuscript of Sallust recently found by Dr. Hauler relates
to the siege and conquest of Isaura Nova by Servilius. Professor
Mommsen procured for me from Dr. Hauler a copy of the manu-
script, a portion of which I venture to insert here, inasmuch as the
whole will have been published by Dr. Hauler before this can appear.1

" Oppidum incensum et cultores venundati, cnquc terrore mox
Isaura Nova legati pacem orantes (mor. Pa/.) vcnere obsidesque et
iussa facturos promit/cbant.".........

.........." Inter quae trepida cunctisque in

unum [Woelffl.; uno Pal.~\ tumultuose consultantibus Servilius
futtilem deditionem ratus, ne (m)etyus) [unsicher: i(n)petus?] sur-
geret, de inproviso montem, ex quo in iuga [Professor Mommsen ;
fugam Pal.; furum?] oppidi teli conicctus erat, occupavit sacrum
Mairi Magnae; et in eo credcbatur ep{u)lari d(ie)bus certis (dertis
Pal.) dea (-m Pal), cuius erat dc nomimc exaudiri sonarcs. . . ."

The south side of the Acropolis ascends gently, but on the north
side it is more abrupt, and reminds one strongly of the Pels in
Mesopotamia. This hill or Acropolis must be the mountain men-
tioned in the Sallust manuscript as being sacred to Cybele. There

1 See Nittu BrmhitiUke zu Sallusis Historitn, von Dr. Edmund Hauler, pp.
26-29. Wien, 1887.