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6. THE PERGAMENIAN FOUNDATION. 129
In the Soman period the country was organized as a loose federation
of separate villages or townships, the Koinon of the Hyrgalean Plain,
no. 29; and a coin of Julia Domna, which mentions YPTAAGIiN •
OMONOIA1, evidently refers to the concord of the various villages
which united in the Koinon. The plain was then organized on the
old Anatolian village-system (cpKeiro k(o/it]86v); and Anastasiopolis
was apparently only a komopolis (§ 2). Thus it is natural that there
are so many small ancient sites in the eastern part of Tchal-Ova.
We must then regard it as probable that the territory of Diony-
sopolis was situated more in the western than in the eastern part of
Tchal-Ova, i. e. the original territory of the Hyrgaleis. After the
Pergamenian colony was founded, the Hyrgaleis were restricted to the
eastern part of Tchal-Ova; but the name Hyrgaletici campi appar-
ently continued to be used as a geographical term denoting the entire
Tchal-Ova. But probably the Hyrgalean and Dionysopolitan lands
were intermixed in such a way that it would be difficult to divide
them by a clear line. We may, however, take it as certain that a good
deal of the best land fell to the share of the Greek colony.
The only other occurrence of the name Hyrgalean is in an epitaph
found at Aidan near Eumeneia, erected by Papias, son of Attalus,
'OpyaXevs, to his wife Tata, daughter of Ammia 2.
An outburst of coinage of the Hyrgaleis marks the accession of
Alexander Severus to the throne. Most of the few coins which we
possess bear the date 306 (to ry'). Alexander became emperor
11 March 222 a.d., which falls in the year 306 of the Lydo-Phrygian
era. Some fact in the history of the district must be connected with
this year and its rich coinage (compare the Laodicean coinage of
a.d. 211, Ch. II § 10).
We may conclude from this fact that the Lydo-Phrygian era, of
which the first year was 85-4 b. c, was used in this district. It
belongs to the Apamean conventus, in many of whose cities that era
was used, whereas no example of its use in any part of the Cibyratic
conventus has been as yet discovered (except p. 289, ep. pp. 203, 280).
§ 8. Phoba is mentioned very rarely and only in late docu-
ments, the list of the Synod of Photius a.d. 879, the later Notitiae
1 I got a single glance at this coin, 'Opyc.Wr, and to understand that ' Or-
which was in the possession of a Greek galia was probably a little city on
trading-agent travelling in Tchal-Ova the banks of the Orgas,' one of the
in 1S83 ; but the jealous owner would affluents of the Maeander beside Apa-
not allow me a second glance. meia. It is noteworthy that Tata's
2 The epitaph is published BCH 1884 mother, not her father, is mentioned
P- 248 by M. Paris, who prefers to read (Ch. Ill § 6).
"VOL. I. K
In the Soman period the country was organized as a loose federation
of separate villages or townships, the Koinon of the Hyrgalean Plain,
no. 29; and a coin of Julia Domna, which mentions YPTAAGIiN •
OMONOIA1, evidently refers to the concord of the various villages
which united in the Koinon. The plain was then organized on the
old Anatolian village-system (cpKeiro k(o/it]86v); and Anastasiopolis
was apparently only a komopolis (§ 2). Thus it is natural that there
are so many small ancient sites in the eastern part of Tchal-Ova.
We must then regard it as probable that the territory of Diony-
sopolis was situated more in the western than in the eastern part of
Tchal-Ova, i. e. the original territory of the Hyrgaleis. After the
Pergamenian colony was founded, the Hyrgaleis were restricted to the
eastern part of Tchal-Ova; but the name Hyrgaletici campi appar-
ently continued to be used as a geographical term denoting the entire
Tchal-Ova. But probably the Hyrgalean and Dionysopolitan lands
were intermixed in such a way that it would be difficult to divide
them by a clear line. We may, however, take it as certain that a good
deal of the best land fell to the share of the Greek colony.
The only other occurrence of the name Hyrgalean is in an epitaph
found at Aidan near Eumeneia, erected by Papias, son of Attalus,
'OpyaXevs, to his wife Tata, daughter of Ammia 2.
An outburst of coinage of the Hyrgaleis marks the accession of
Alexander Severus to the throne. Most of the few coins which we
possess bear the date 306 (to ry'). Alexander became emperor
11 March 222 a.d., which falls in the year 306 of the Lydo-Phrygian
era. Some fact in the history of the district must be connected with
this year and its rich coinage (compare the Laodicean coinage of
a.d. 211, Ch. II § 10).
We may conclude from this fact that the Lydo-Phrygian era, of
which the first year was 85-4 b. c, was used in this district. It
belongs to the Apamean conventus, in many of whose cities that era
was used, whereas no example of its use in any part of the Cibyratic
conventus has been as yet discovered (except p. 289, ep. pp. 203, 280).
§ 8. Phoba is mentioned very rarely and only in late docu-
ments, the list of the Synod of Photius a.d. 879, the later Notitiae
1 I got a single glance at this coin, 'Opyc.Wr, and to understand that ' Or-
which was in the possession of a Greek galia was probably a little city on
trading-agent travelling in Tchal-Ova the banks of the Orgas,' one of the
in 1S83 ; but the jealous owner would affluents of the Maeander beside Apa-
not allow me a second glance. meia. It is noteworthy that Tata's
2 The epitaph is published BCH 1884 mother, not her father, is mentioned
P- 248 by M. Paris, who prefers to read (Ch. Ill § 6).
"VOL. I. K