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CHAPTER XXIV.

TEMPLE OE IIEKATE AT LAGINA.

Route from Eski Hissar to Lagina; site of temple of Hekate ;
architectural remains j sculptures of frieze ; Peribolus ; inscrip-
tions ; various ministers of the temple mentioned in them;
Procession of the Key; Hekate Trivia; the priests ; their
term of office ; their largesses to the people ; festivals ; district
round the temple ; civil magistrates and names of towns men-
tioned in the inscriptions.

During a tour in Caria made in the spring of
the year 1856, I visited the site of the temple of
Hekate at Lagina.

This place is situated about two hours north
by Avest from Eski Hissar" (Stratonicsea). It still
retains its ancient name, which is pronounced
Laina.

0 In Kiepert's Map, and that of Lebas, Lagina is placed to the
north-east of Stratonicsea ; and in the Map prefixed to this volume
I have followed their authority. But the real position of Lagina
is to the north-west of Stratonica^a, as has been noted by three
travellers, Pococke, Ross, and Lieutenant Smith, all of whom made
the journey from Eski Hissar to Lagina ; and in his Memoir ueber
die Construction der Karte von Kleinasien, Berlin, 18-54, p. 77,
Kiepert acknowledges that he has been misled by Arrowsmith's
map. He remarks that the position neither of Stratonicsea nor of
Mughla can be considered as fixed.