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unmixed and unchanged the type of some old race. An ethnological
observer would find them an interesting subject of study.
In Thiounta there was found a species of marble, which was widely
used for sarcophagi. In an epitaph at Hierapolis, we read of a sarco-
phagus of Thiountene stone1. The name occurs in no other place ; but^
the use of the stone spread much further, though, when it was carried
to other places, it was known as Hierapolitan marble ; the name of
the great city supplanted that of the unknown village. This fact may
suggest that Thiounta was subject to Hierapolis, which is otherwise
probable. But the analogous case of Dokimian marble, shows that the
inference is not certain: Dokimion, Avhere the marble was found, was
an independent 2MHS, yet its marble was known to the world as
Synnadic2. Hierapolitan marble is described by Strabo3 as variegated
like the marbles of Skyros, Kaiystos, and Dokimion. Magnificent
sarcophagi of Hierapolitan stone are described by ConstantinePorphyro-
genitus (de Cerim. Aid. Byz. p. 644) in the Church of the Holy
Apostles at Constantinople: in them were deposited the remains of
Theodora wife of Justinian, and of the wife of Anastasius Artemius 4.
The religion of Mossyna and Thiounta was evidently exactly similar
to that of Dionysopolis and Hierapolis. Of the government nothing
is known. It is probable that the agoranomos mentioned in no. 33
"was an official of Mossyna; but the 'paraphylax at Thiounta, no. 31,
is more likely to have been a head of police for the entire Hierapolitan
territory than an official of Thiounta alone. The agonothetes, no. 30,
was doubtless an officer of Thiounta. If so, it is clear that each
village possessed distinct individuality and a certain degree of self-
administering power, though Hierapolis exercised some authority over
them all. This authority was such that the taxation was paid to the
imperial exchequer through Hierapolis: that city was assessed for the
whole district subject to it, and these self-governing komai paid their
share to Hierapolis (Ch. IX §§ 6 and 7).
Some of the villages mentioned below, § 14, may have been on the
1 Waddington 16S3. The same inscr. Suvpias Kadiinep Tijs Kapvcrrias Kai Ttjs
is published CIG- 3915 with the text AoKtpalov ku\ ttjs 'iepaTroAiriKf/s- p. 374.
violently altered to aopbv Aoki^ijiojk. SwvadiKiji, a marginal gloss to Aoki/Wou,
2 This obviously was because the office has crept'into the text beside 'Upon.;
of the procurator marmorum (CIL III and the passage has been further cor-
348; see Inscripl. hied, tie marbres Phri/g. rupted, A 0 K I M A10 Y becoming
in Mel. d'Arch. et d'Hist. 1882) was at AGYKAAAIOY and then AeuKaXW.
Synnada ; and orders from the outside 4 Reiske ad loc. knows no other refer-
world were addressed to Synnada. ences to this kind of marble, and can
3 ™ piraWa ■njs notKiXrji Xl&ov t>> throw no light on it.
unmixed and unchanged the type of some old race. An ethnological
observer would find them an interesting subject of study.
In Thiounta there was found a species of marble, which was widely
used for sarcophagi. In an epitaph at Hierapolis, we read of a sarco-
phagus of Thiountene stone1. The name occurs in no other place ; but^
the use of the stone spread much further, though, when it was carried
to other places, it was known as Hierapolitan marble ; the name of
the great city supplanted that of the unknown village. This fact may
suggest that Thiounta was subject to Hierapolis, which is otherwise
probable. But the analogous case of Dokimian marble, shows that the
inference is not certain: Dokimion, Avhere the marble was found, was
an independent 2MHS, yet its marble was known to the world as
Synnadic2. Hierapolitan marble is described by Strabo3 as variegated
like the marbles of Skyros, Kaiystos, and Dokimion. Magnificent
sarcophagi of Hierapolitan stone are described by ConstantinePorphyro-
genitus (de Cerim. Aid. Byz. p. 644) in the Church of the Holy
Apostles at Constantinople: in them were deposited the remains of
Theodora wife of Justinian, and of the wife of Anastasius Artemius 4.
The religion of Mossyna and Thiounta was evidently exactly similar
to that of Dionysopolis and Hierapolis. Of the government nothing
is known. It is probable that the agoranomos mentioned in no. 33
"was an official of Mossyna; but the 'paraphylax at Thiounta, no. 31,
is more likely to have been a head of police for the entire Hierapolitan
territory than an official of Thiounta alone. The agonothetes, no. 30,
was doubtless an officer of Thiounta. If so, it is clear that each
village possessed distinct individuality and a certain degree of self-
administering power, though Hierapolis exercised some authority over
them all. This authority was such that the taxation was paid to the
imperial exchequer through Hierapolis: that city was assessed for the
whole district subject to it, and these self-governing komai paid their
share to Hierapolis (Ch. IX §§ 6 and 7).
Some of the villages mentioned below, § 14, may have been on the
1 Waddington 16S3. The same inscr. Suvpias Kadiinep Tijs Kapvcrrias Kai Ttjs
is published CIG- 3915 with the text AoKtpalov ku\ ttjs 'iepaTroAiriKf/s- p. 374.
violently altered to aopbv Aoki^ijiojk. SwvadiKiji, a marginal gloss to Aoki/Wou,
2 This obviously was because the office has crept'into the text beside 'Upon.;
of the procurator marmorum (CIL III and the passage has been further cor-
348; see Inscripl. hied, tie marbres Phri/g. rupted, A 0 K I M A10 Y becoming
in Mel. d'Arch. et d'Hist. 1882) was at AGYKAAAIOY and then AeuKaXW.
Synnada ; and orders from the outside 4 Reiske ad loc. knows no other refer-
world were addressed to Synnada. ences to this kind of marble, and can
3 ™ piraWa ■njs notKiXrji Xl&ov t>> throw no light on it.