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CHAPTER IV
CITIES OF THE MIDDLE MAEANDER VALLEY: MOSSYNA,
MOTELLA, DIONYSOPOLIS, HYRGALEIS
§ 1. Situation and Scenery p. 122. § 2. Mossyna p. 122. § 3. Thiounta p. 124.
§ 4. Dionysopolis p. 126. § 5. The Hyrgalean Plain p. 126. § 6. The Pergame-
nian Foundation p. 127. § 7. Anastasiopolis, and the Hyrgalean Union p. 128.
§ 8. Phoba p. 129. § 9. Hieron of Mother Leto and Apollo Lairbenos p. 130.
§ 10. The Holy Village of Atys p. 132. § 11. Lairbenos p. 133. § 12. The
native Anatolian Social System, (a) Enfranchisement by Dedication p. 134. (b)
Exemplaria p. 134. (c) Hieroi p. 135. (d) Ceremonial Purity p. 136. (e) Deisi-
daimonia p. 137. (f) The God as Sender and Healer of Disease p. 138. (g) Sacred
animals p. 138. § 13. Motella p. 141. § 14. Villages p. 141.
Appendices : I. Inscriptions p. 142. II. Bishops p. 157.
§ 1. Situation and Scenery. We take this district immediately
after Hierapolis, because there was a very close connexion between it
and Hierapolis, and its inscriptions throw a much-needed ray of light
on the religion of Hierapolis (and of Phrygia generally). The district
lies on the middle course of the Maeander, immediately above the
Lycos valley. Mossyna adjoined Hierapolis and was probably subject
to it, and beyond it to north and east was Dionysopolis; both being
on the left or southern bank of the Maeander, facing Motella on the
right bank. The Hyrgaleis were the old Phrygian Or Lydian people
in whose territory the Pergamenian colony Dionysopolis was founded;
and after that they continued to occupy the country adjoining Dionyso-
polis on both sides of the Maeander. The district as a whole is now
called Tchal-Ova, and was called Hyrgaletici Campi by Pliny V 113.
Its geographical character is more fully described in Ch. VII § 1.
§ 2. Mossyna. The district of Mossyna, inhabited by a people called
Mossyneis, lies between Hierapolis on the south, the Maeander on the
west and north, Dionysopolis and the Hyrgaleis on the north and
east. It occupies the high-lying district on the rim of the plateau, to
which the traveller ascends by a very steep climb of 3,000 feet from
the Lycos valley. When one reaches the summit of what appears
CITIES OF THE MIDDLE MAEANDER VALLEY: MOSSYNA,
MOTELLA, DIONYSOPOLIS, HYRGALEIS
§ 1. Situation and Scenery p. 122. § 2. Mossyna p. 122. § 3. Thiounta p. 124.
§ 4. Dionysopolis p. 126. § 5. The Hyrgalean Plain p. 126. § 6. The Pergame-
nian Foundation p. 127. § 7. Anastasiopolis, and the Hyrgalean Union p. 128.
§ 8. Phoba p. 129. § 9. Hieron of Mother Leto and Apollo Lairbenos p. 130.
§ 10. The Holy Village of Atys p. 132. § 11. Lairbenos p. 133. § 12. The
native Anatolian Social System, (a) Enfranchisement by Dedication p. 134. (b)
Exemplaria p. 134. (c) Hieroi p. 135. (d) Ceremonial Purity p. 136. (e) Deisi-
daimonia p. 137. (f) The God as Sender and Healer of Disease p. 138. (g) Sacred
animals p. 138. § 13. Motella p. 141. § 14. Villages p. 141.
Appendices : I. Inscriptions p. 142. II. Bishops p. 157.
§ 1. Situation and Scenery. We take this district immediately
after Hierapolis, because there was a very close connexion between it
and Hierapolis, and its inscriptions throw a much-needed ray of light
on the religion of Hierapolis (and of Phrygia generally). The district
lies on the middle course of the Maeander, immediately above the
Lycos valley. Mossyna adjoined Hierapolis and was probably subject
to it, and beyond it to north and east was Dionysopolis; both being
on the left or southern bank of the Maeander, facing Motella on the
right bank. The Hyrgaleis were the old Phrygian Or Lydian people
in whose territory the Pergamenian colony Dionysopolis was founded;
and after that they continued to occupy the country adjoining Dionyso-
polis on both sides of the Maeander. The district as a whole is now
called Tchal-Ova, and was called Hyrgaletici Campi by Pliny V 113.
Its geographical character is more fully described in Ch. VII § 1.
§ 2. Mossyna. The district of Mossyna, inhabited by a people called
Mossyneis, lies between Hierapolis on the south, the Maeander on the
west and north, Dionysopolis and the Hyrgaleis on the north and
east. It occupies the high-lying district on the rim of the plateau, to
which the traveller ascends by a very steep climb of 3,000 feet from
the Lycos valley. When one reaches the summit of what appears