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ESKI AND AVAL
297
siderably. Here, as I was afterwards informed by my Greek
landlord at Nigdeh, was Eski Andaval; but no remains are
now to be seen, except a ruined church, dedicated to Agios
Kostantinos (St. Constantino). It is, however, enough to
enable us to recognise the site of a place, mentioned in all
the Itineraries, called Andavilis or Addavilis, and which,
according to the Antonine Itinerary, was sixteen miles from
Tyana ; this very closely agrees with the construction of the
map, which gives fourteen geographical miles going round
by Nigdeh and ISor, and eleven and a half in a straight line
over a country almost everywhere passable ; the exact pro-
portion of G.M. to sixteen M.P. would be twelve.
The Jerusalem Itinerary, after mentioning this place
makes the following curious remark :—" Ibi est villa Pam-
pali undo veniunt equi curules." * It is certainly a sin-
gular fact that there is not a spot in the surrounding
country so well suited as this for the purpose of breeding
horses; no place where there is such a happy mixture of
water and meadow-land, for in general, where water occurs
in this country, it either flows over a dry sandy plain, or
produces deep and impassable morasses. Here, then, was
probably the stud of Pampalus, or (as they are supposed
by the critics to have been one and the same person) of the
Palmatius mentioned in the Glossse Nomica? of the Lower
Empire,f whose breed of horses, extensive landed property,
and magnificent palace at Ceesarea, nearly equalled the
splendour of the Emperor Valerian.
From this spot the town of Nigdeh and its castle on a
low insulated hill appeared about three miles off, S.S.W.;
low hills skirted the roadside on our right, consisting of
alternating beds of sand and conglomerate. Soon after
eleven we reached the extensive gardens of Nigdeh ; in the
burial-grounds which we passed through, I only perceived
a broken shaft of a handsome fluted column, and a few
shrines or monuments of elegant Saracenic structure. On
* Jerusalem Itinerary, Weaseling, p. 377.
f Lex unic. C. Th. (le Greg. Dominic.
ESKI AND AVAL
297
siderably. Here, as I was afterwards informed by my Greek
landlord at Nigdeh, was Eski Andaval; but no remains are
now to be seen, except a ruined church, dedicated to Agios
Kostantinos (St. Constantino). It is, however, enough to
enable us to recognise the site of a place, mentioned in all
the Itineraries, called Andavilis or Addavilis, and which,
according to the Antonine Itinerary, was sixteen miles from
Tyana ; this very closely agrees with the construction of the
map, which gives fourteen geographical miles going round
by Nigdeh and ISor, and eleven and a half in a straight line
over a country almost everywhere passable ; the exact pro-
portion of G.M. to sixteen M.P. would be twelve.
The Jerusalem Itinerary, after mentioning this place
makes the following curious remark :—" Ibi est villa Pam-
pali undo veniunt equi curules." * It is certainly a sin-
gular fact that there is not a spot in the surrounding
country so well suited as this for the purpose of breeding
horses; no place where there is such a happy mixture of
water and meadow-land, for in general, where water occurs
in this country, it either flows over a dry sandy plain, or
produces deep and impassable morasses. Here, then, was
probably the stud of Pampalus, or (as they are supposed
by the critics to have been one and the same person) of the
Palmatius mentioned in the Glossse Nomica? of the Lower
Empire,f whose breed of horses, extensive landed property,
and magnificent palace at Ceesarea, nearly equalled the
splendour of the Emperor Valerian.
From this spot the town of Nigdeh and its castle on a
low insulated hill appeared about three miles off, S.S.W.;
low hills skirted the roadside on our right, consisting of
alternating beds of sand and conglomerate. Soon after
eleven we reached the extensive gardens of Nigdeh ; in the
burial-grounds which we passed through, I only perceived
a broken shaft of a handsome fluted column, and a few
shrines or monuments of elegant Saracenic structure. On
* Jerusalem Itinerary, Weaseling, p. 377.
f Lex unic. C. Th. (le Greg. Dominic.