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106 III. HIERAPOLIS: THE HOLY CITY.
not expect to find tribes there ; and no trace of tribes has as yet been
discovered.
The trade-guilds were governed by presidents, called in Thyateira
ktricTTaTai1 and in Hierapolis epyar-qyoi no. 36. The institution has
survived in at least some cities of Asia Minor to modern times: the
example best known to me is at Angora (Ancyra Gal.) where we
could not hire muleteers except through the chief of the guild, who
apportioned work to the various muleteers at his sovereign will and
pleasure. M. Eadet rightly suggests that these guilds date from the
earliest historical period in the country, and finds a reference to them
in the account given by Herodotus I 93 of the building of the tomb
of Alyattes by the merchants, artisans, and courtesans : he considers
their action as the result of a requisition laid by the sovereign on the
guilds2. Under the Empire these guilds were, of course, so far
romanized as to bring them within the category of collegia legitima
{Dig. 47, 22), and were registered under the name of their president.
It is a proof of the elasticity of Koman rule that their otherwise fixed
principle prohibiting collegia was so completely relaxed in a country
where the institution was of old standing.
The Dyers were no doubt numerous and rich at Hierapolis, where
the waters were, as Strabo p. 639 says, exceedingly useful for dyeing.
The water of the hot-springs seems to be rich in alum (judging from
the taste), which is much used in the dyeing-process.
We cannot leave the subject without mentioning Flavius Zeuxis
epyaaTrjS who sailed round Malea 3 to Italy seventy-two times, and
made a grave for himself and his sons Flavius Theodoros and Flavius
1 im<iTT}o-aiievov tov epyov r£>v j3arpeav confidently asserted against M. Radet
otto yevovs CIGr 3498 : the last phrase that the trade-guilds were a purely
implies only birth in a family which had Roman institution. But the Roman
supplied presidents previously, and not government was exceedingly strict in
hereditary presidence (Ch. II §7). In enforcing the prohibition of such guilds
CIG- 3912 a (note 1 p. 105) Papias was (Church in R. Emp. pp. 215, 359); and,
apx^vrji [£]u[o"]toG to jS', and evidently if they permitted guilds on such an
he was an officer of an ipyao-ia. This extensive scale in Asia, this must in
title is obscure, and perhaps corrupt all probability have been due to their
(one would look for apxoiv [r]vs ■ ■ • ancient standing, and the danger of
tov). A Xystos was a covered colonnade, tampering with a national habit. An
and dpxaivrjs was a farmer-general of a example of the danger to peace and
tax : and the two ideas do not go well order that was inherent in such guilds
together. It is possible that inscr. 28 occurs at Magnesia (Church in B. Emp.
gives further information about these p. 200).
guilds, in case it is not Christian (as 3 Ma\eav Se Kaphas ein\a8ov ran oi'/«i<5<r
I think it is). Strabo p. 378.
2 M. Clerc Thyatira p. 90 has very
not expect to find tribes there ; and no trace of tribes has as yet been
discovered.
The trade-guilds were governed by presidents, called in Thyateira
ktricTTaTai1 and in Hierapolis epyar-qyoi no. 36. The institution has
survived in at least some cities of Asia Minor to modern times: the
example best known to me is at Angora (Ancyra Gal.) where we
could not hire muleteers except through the chief of the guild, who
apportioned work to the various muleteers at his sovereign will and
pleasure. M. Eadet rightly suggests that these guilds date from the
earliest historical period in the country, and finds a reference to them
in the account given by Herodotus I 93 of the building of the tomb
of Alyattes by the merchants, artisans, and courtesans : he considers
their action as the result of a requisition laid by the sovereign on the
guilds2. Under the Empire these guilds were, of course, so far
romanized as to bring them within the category of collegia legitima
{Dig. 47, 22), and were registered under the name of their president.
It is a proof of the elasticity of Koman rule that their otherwise fixed
principle prohibiting collegia was so completely relaxed in a country
where the institution was of old standing.
The Dyers were no doubt numerous and rich at Hierapolis, where
the waters were, as Strabo p. 639 says, exceedingly useful for dyeing.
The water of the hot-springs seems to be rich in alum (judging from
the taste), which is much used in the dyeing-process.
We cannot leave the subject without mentioning Flavius Zeuxis
epyaaTrjS who sailed round Malea 3 to Italy seventy-two times, and
made a grave for himself and his sons Flavius Theodoros and Flavius
1 im<iTT}o-aiievov tov epyov r£>v j3arpeav confidently asserted against M. Radet
otto yevovs CIGr 3498 : the last phrase that the trade-guilds were a purely
implies only birth in a family which had Roman institution. But the Roman
supplied presidents previously, and not government was exceedingly strict in
hereditary presidence (Ch. II §7). In enforcing the prohibition of such guilds
CIG- 3912 a (note 1 p. 105) Papias was (Church in R. Emp. pp. 215, 359); and,
apx^vrji [£]u[o"]toG to jS', and evidently if they permitted guilds on such an
he was an officer of an ipyao-ia. This extensive scale in Asia, this must in
title is obscure, and perhaps corrupt all probability have been due to their
(one would look for apxoiv [r]vs ■ ■ • ancient standing, and the danger of
tov). A Xystos was a covered colonnade, tampering with a national habit. An
and dpxaivrjs was a farmer-general of a example of the danger to peace and
tax : and the two ideas do not go well order that was inherent in such guilds
together. It is possible that inscr. 28 occurs at Magnesia (Church in B. Emp.
gives further information about these p. 200).
guilds, in case it is not Christian (as 3 Ma\eav Se Kaphas ein\a8ov ran oi'/«i<5<r
I think it is). Strabo p. 378.
2 M. Clerc Thyatira p. 90 has very