Ramsay, William Mitchell: The cities and bishoprics of Phrygia: being an essay of the local history of Phrygia from the earliest time to the Turkish conquest (Band 1,1): The Lycos Valley and South-Western Phrygia (Oxford, 1895)

144 IV. MOSSYNA, MOTELLA, DIONYSOPOLIS, ETC.

No. 30 is probably slightly older tban 31. This seems proved by the
following genealogical tables: the first is not so certain as the other
two (A = no. 30 ; B = no. 31): —

(1) Iollas (2) Kairylos (3) Diodoros t/h's

Zeuxis

Iollas
A

Zeuxis
B

Diodoros

Diodoros Apollonios
A B

Diodoros Gorgion

A I

Athenagoras
B

Athenagoras

Diodoros Kol.
B

Thiounta is probably to be understood as ©v-ovvha \ cp. ©via, ©vd-
reipa (Teipa, 'AhpLavovdijpai, Trpj-evoOvpai, TpifxevoOvpa), ©v-rjcra-os and ©u-
eaaos. The termination -onda, -ounda, -ouda, -inda, -ouza, -aza, is very
widespread in Asia Minor, Attouda, Aloudda, Sibidounda, Kyinda,
Elouza and Elaza, Kalynda, Talbonda, Pyrindos, Akanda, Otorkonda,
Oinoanda, Laranda, Amynanda, Kadyanda, Karyanda, &e. The termi-
nation -avOos, -ivOa, -ivdos, is, as Pauli has remarked [eine vorgriech.
InscJirift von Lemnos p. 51, which should be consulted on the whole
subject), probably a dialectic variety of -avha, -ivha. The variation
between the forms with and without the nasal is characteristic of
Cyprus, Pamphylia and Anatolia generally.

3a. (R. 1883). At Geveze:-

Relief :
Horseman facing

the

goddess, figure broken but-
doubtless same as the
opposite horseman.

Relief :

Simulacrum of Artemis
with all the character of
the Ephesian, veil, mam-
mae,supports for the hands,
and a deer at each side.

Relief :

Horseman facing the
goddess, wearing chlamys,
carrying battle - axe on
left shoulder, and patera
in right hand: the horse
raises right forefoot.

'O bfj radiated /xos 6 Mo[acrvviaiv

ol el- head y ro 0"6yyp\ap.p.a ?]

A?7 koI <TT€(pav\_oi (?)

[kv rfj j3ov-]

This inscription2 justifies the order of Hierocles, who places Mossyna
next to Hierapolis. Probably the country of the Mossyneis was originally
subject to Hierapolis, and was elevated to the rank of a city by Byzantine
policy, which inclined to raise the smaller towns to a level with the great
cities and to break up the great territories of the latter. Hence, e. g.

1 On the principle that spelling was
bad in this remote community, and that
the modern Greek pronunciation spread
first among the least educated.

2 I omit the argument, by which, when
first publishingthis inscription, Ijustified
the restored name. It is now confirmed
by another inscription, given below.