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it remains at least possible that the Jews had there fastened on
native names and myths, adopting or adapting them to suit their
own tradition. The town was called Kibotos, apparently the
Grecised form of some Phrygian name, whose significance escapes
us1. Another coin of Apameia, struck by Hadrian, shows (figs-
334—337)2 Marsyas with cornu copiae and flutes seated in a
rocky grotto: beneath him water streams from an inverted vase;
above him are several chests and the legend kibotoi. F. I mho0*"'
Blumer3 cites this coin-type in support of G. Hirschfeld's4 con-
jecture that Apameia was nick-named Kibotos on account of lts
commercial importance5. To me it seems more likely that Kibotoi

Fig. 334. Fig. 335. Fig. 336.

was the name of some local festival6. But, whatever
explanation, Jewish settlers would be quick to discover an al ^
to their own ark and would probably claim that it had S1'0"^^
on some neighbouring mountain7. Again, we may conclude

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1 Sir W. M. Ramsay op. cit. i. 2. 671, V. Schultze op. cit. ii. 1. 45^ n- 2'
Ktfivpa in Phrygia (supra ii. 771). ^ fro111

2 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Phrygia pp. xxxix, 96 nos. 155 pi. 11, 10 (=my (sffi)'
a cast) and 156, no. 157 pi. n, 11 ( = myfig. 336 from a cast), no. 158 pi- nd 8775'
fig. 337 from a cast), McClean Cat. Coins iii. 235 nos. 8771 pi. 3°^' yp$er Cat'
Imhoof-Blumer Kleinas. Miinssen i. 211 no. 19 pi. 7, 11 ( = my fig- 334)'

Coins iii. 495 no. 7036 pi. 250, Head Hist, num.'1 p. 666.

3 Imhoof-Blumer op. cit. i. 211. a„, phi'''

4 G. Hirschfeld 'Kelainai—Apameia Kibotos' in the Abh. d. berl. Aliad\^ fkylttW
hist. Classe 1. 15. His view, rejected by E. Schiirer Die Prophetin Isabel *"rot& <3f
1892 p. 54 and Sir W. M. Ramsay The Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia ^ c„i,is
i. 2. 671 n. 2, is accepted as 'perhaps' correct by B. V. Head in Brit- Mus-
Phrygia p. xxxii and in Hist, num.2 p. 666. rHv **r*

5 Strab. ^6'A-wdp.eia % Ki^wros \eyophr) xal AaoSUeta, a'iirep eltrl ^^^^ 'M^*'

t7]v Qpvylav TToKewv, 577 'Airapeia S' iarlv ipirbpiov fxtya rrjs iSlois ^e7°
devrepevov peril t7)i>"~E,<p<i<jov. ^ cCjernOr<^

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G. Hirschfeld he. cit. p. 15 n. 4 remarks: 'Es ist auffallend genug, dass
gelegene tiirk. Ort Sandykly dasselbe bedeutet: sandyk heisst Kiste. ^ x 17 f0

L. Grasberger Studim zu den griechischen Ortsnamen Wurzburg I

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that an artificial harbour at Alexandreia was called Kifiurds (Strab. 79S)- ;s ro«g'

6 For numismatic parallels see supra i. 534 n. 8. Our own Boxing ^
analogous. „f\ah»P I it

7 Cp. oracl. Sib. 1. 261 ff. Geffcken &m U n <S>pvylT)i kr V ^„Tes tpeW' 1
ravvprjKes opos- ' Apapar di KoXetrai, | Stt &pa (rwdrjaeaBM eir avrqi