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10. TRADE-GUILDS. 107
Theudas and for all to whom they give leave *. It is strange that
a merchant resident in an inland city should have taken so many
voyages.
§11. History. Hardly anything is known of the history of
Hierapolis in the Greek and Roman periods. It grew by slow stages ;
and in the time of Strabo seems to have been far from great or
important; but in the peace and prosperity of the empire its hot-
springs must have made it a great resort for invalids and valetudi-
narians. Its coinage is rich and varied in type, and it must have
been very important in the social as well as the religious point of
view.
A series of coins struck under Augustus in the last decade B.C. shows
the name of the city in a transition period, see p. 87. The reverse
type of the following is a tripod, with the inscriptions
[n]AniAZ • ATTEAAIAOY ■ lEPOFTOAEITnN
AYrKEYI • cblAOTTATPIS • lEPATTCMEITUN
AldplAOI • Alcj)IAOY • APXHN • To • B •
On a coin of the proconsul Fabius Maximus (c. 5 B.C.), the type is
a bipennis with the legend ZftllMOE • <J>IAOTTATPII • lEPOFTOAEI-
THN -eXAPAZ(ez)2.
The imposing triple gateway by which the road to Tripolis and
Saidis issued from the city was dedicated perhaps to Commodus3.
The title Neokoros was conferred on Hierapolis probably about the
end of the second or beginning of the third century (at latest under
Caracalla); but the circumstances and the exact date are unknown 4.
Of the state of society and education at Hierapolis hardly any
evidence remains except what is stated about L. Septimius Antipater
(p. 45). In an inscription of the British Museum, DXLVIII, T. Claudius
P. Callixenus of Hierapolis is mentioned as a pupil of the sophist
Soteros at Ephesos5. Epictetus was a native of Hierapolis; but prob-
ably did not owe much to the education of his native city.
1 The names of the sons have a Chris- Ephesos 6 vea(ic6pos) 'E$f(<riW) S>iO°r)
tian appearance, and the unusual free- e7rexcip(«|f), Catalogue of Coins of Ionia
dom in granting the use of the tomb p. 76.
seems unlike Pagan feeling, and very 3 CIL III 7°59- Caracalla or Severus
like Christian freedom and usage in are not absolutely excluded : the frag-
regard to common sepulture. Compare nient belongs to one of the three,
inscr. 27. * Coins of Caracalla and of Julia
2 Zosimus evidently paid the expense Domna have the title, p. 59 n.
of these coins, as Apollodotus did at 6 Soteros of Ephesos is mentioned by
Lounda (no. 86). Mr. Head compares Philostratos Tit. Soph. II 23 as a very
at Tripolis BeoSwpos P e'xdpa^f), and at inferior sophist.
Theudas and for all to whom they give leave *. It is strange that
a merchant resident in an inland city should have taken so many
voyages.
§11. History. Hardly anything is known of the history of
Hierapolis in the Greek and Roman periods. It grew by slow stages ;
and in the time of Strabo seems to have been far from great or
important; but in the peace and prosperity of the empire its hot-
springs must have made it a great resort for invalids and valetudi-
narians. Its coinage is rich and varied in type, and it must have
been very important in the social as well as the religious point of
view.
A series of coins struck under Augustus in the last decade B.C. shows
the name of the city in a transition period, see p. 87. The reverse
type of the following is a tripod, with the inscriptions
[n]AniAZ • ATTEAAIAOY ■ lEPOFTOAEITnN
AYrKEYI • cblAOTTATPIS • lEPATTCMEITUN
AldplAOI • Alcj)IAOY • APXHN • To • B •
On a coin of the proconsul Fabius Maximus (c. 5 B.C.), the type is
a bipennis with the legend ZftllMOE • <J>IAOTTATPII • lEPOFTOAEI-
THN -eXAPAZ(ez)2.
The imposing triple gateway by which the road to Tripolis and
Saidis issued from the city was dedicated perhaps to Commodus3.
The title Neokoros was conferred on Hierapolis probably about the
end of the second or beginning of the third century (at latest under
Caracalla); but the circumstances and the exact date are unknown 4.
Of the state of society and education at Hierapolis hardly any
evidence remains except what is stated about L. Septimius Antipater
(p. 45). In an inscription of the British Museum, DXLVIII, T. Claudius
P. Callixenus of Hierapolis is mentioned as a pupil of the sophist
Soteros at Ephesos5. Epictetus was a native of Hierapolis; but prob-
ably did not owe much to the education of his native city.
1 The names of the sons have a Chris- Ephesos 6 vea(ic6pos) 'E$f(<riW) S>iO°r)
tian appearance, and the unusual free- e7rexcip(«|f), Catalogue of Coins of Ionia
dom in granting the use of the tomb p. 76.
seems unlike Pagan feeling, and very 3 CIL III 7°59- Caracalla or Severus
like Christian freedom and usage in are not absolutely excluded : the frag-
regard to common sepulture. Compare nient belongs to one of the three,
inscr. 27. * Coins of Caracalla and of Julia
2 Zosimus evidently paid the expense Domna have the title, p. 59 n.
of these coins, as Apollodotus did at 6 Soteros of Ephesos is mentioned by
Lounda (no. 86). Mr. Head compares Philostratos Tit. Soph. II 23 as a very
at Tripolis BeoSwpos P e'xdpa^f), and at inferior sophist.