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3. THE MAEANDER BRIDGES. 165
three miles south-east of the bridge on the road to Denizli. Another
wooden bridge has for a long time spanned the Maeander about two
miles above the Lycos junction. It carries the traffic that goes north
of the Lycos. But the neglect of agriculture has allowed great marshes
to form on the north side of the Lycos ; and these necessitate so long
a detour that the little trade that came down the valley has long-
kept the south side above Serai-Keui and there crossed to the north
bank of the Maeander. Since the railways were built, this trade has
increased enormously, and Serai-Keui has grown great during the last
thirty or forty years.
§ 4. Attouda. The modern village Assar seems to be close to an
ancient site ; and the inscriptions found there oblige us to identify it
as Attouda1. But there is room for another city, situated further
east near Kadi Keui, and corresponding to it (though perhaps not on
the actual site), viz. Trapezopolis; and we shall find it necessary to
conjecture that there was a third city, Kidramos, west of Assar.
These three divided the country bounded by Laodiceia on the east,
Salbakos on the south, the Morsynos valley with the cities Aphro-
disias, Gordiou-teichos and Antiocheia on the west, and the Maeander
on the north. Across this country a ridge projecting from Salbakos
stretches far out to the north-west, narrowing the low valley of the
Maeander, like a wall reaching down to the gate through which the
river flows. This ridge, now called Tchibuk-Dagh2, is about 4,200 feet
high where the road Attouda-Aphrodisias crossed it. There can hardly
be any doubt that the Tchibuk-Dagh was the line of division between
Byzantine Phrygia and Caria. Trapezopolis and Attouda, which were
Phrygian in Byzantine time, lay east of it, and Kidramos, which was
Carian, must be looked for on the Avest. But in Koman time, the
whole of this district, west of the Laodicean frontier, seems to have
been included in Caria, i. e. in the conventus of Alabanda 3.
criticism on tliis point absolutely, ib. it. Hissar and Assar seem to be dialectic
p. 324. See pp. 85, 160. varieties. I have found it impossible to
1 CIG 3950 and those which are pub- establish any difference between them,
lished by M. Clerc BCH 1887 p. 349, 2 The name Tchibuk (long-stemmed
and by M. Radet BCH 1890 p. 238. pipe) suits the long-ridge with the mass
The name Ipsili-Hissar given in CIG of M. Salbakos at the end.
and the older travellers is unknown in s Attouda does not occur in Ptolemy ;
the country, and the first part is prob- but in all probability Itoana, which he
ably an addition made by a Greek ser- places in Caria next to Trapezopolis,
vant. This district was almost purely should be corrected to Attouda, as has
Turkish till the railway was made ; but been remarked by almost every writer
since then Greeks are steadily occupying on the subject.
three miles south-east of the bridge on the road to Denizli. Another
wooden bridge has for a long time spanned the Maeander about two
miles above the Lycos junction. It carries the traffic that goes north
of the Lycos. But the neglect of agriculture has allowed great marshes
to form on the north side of the Lycos ; and these necessitate so long
a detour that the little trade that came down the valley has long-
kept the south side above Serai-Keui and there crossed to the north
bank of the Maeander. Since the railways were built, this trade has
increased enormously, and Serai-Keui has grown great during the last
thirty or forty years.
§ 4. Attouda. The modern village Assar seems to be close to an
ancient site ; and the inscriptions found there oblige us to identify it
as Attouda1. But there is room for another city, situated further
east near Kadi Keui, and corresponding to it (though perhaps not on
the actual site), viz. Trapezopolis; and we shall find it necessary to
conjecture that there was a third city, Kidramos, west of Assar.
These three divided the country bounded by Laodiceia on the east,
Salbakos on the south, the Morsynos valley with the cities Aphro-
disias, Gordiou-teichos and Antiocheia on the west, and the Maeander
on the north. Across this country a ridge projecting from Salbakos
stretches far out to the north-west, narrowing the low valley of the
Maeander, like a wall reaching down to the gate through which the
river flows. This ridge, now called Tchibuk-Dagh2, is about 4,200 feet
high where the road Attouda-Aphrodisias crossed it. There can hardly
be any doubt that the Tchibuk-Dagh was the line of division between
Byzantine Phrygia and Caria. Trapezopolis and Attouda, which were
Phrygian in Byzantine time, lay east of it, and Kidramos, which was
Carian, must be looked for on the Avest. But in Koman time, the
whole of this district, west of the Laodicean frontier, seems to have
been included in Caria, i. e. in the conventus of Alabanda 3.
criticism on tliis point absolutely, ib. it. Hissar and Assar seem to be dialectic
p. 324. See pp. 85, 160. varieties. I have found it impossible to
1 CIG 3950 and those which are pub- establish any difference between them,
lished by M. Clerc BCH 1887 p. 349, 2 The name Tchibuk (long-stemmed
and by M. Radet BCH 1890 p. 238. pipe) suits the long-ridge with the mass
The name Ipsili-Hissar given in CIG of M. Salbakos at the end.
and the older travellers is unknown in s Attouda does not occur in Ptolemy ;
the country, and the first part is prob- but in all probability Itoana, which he
ably an addition made by a Greek ser- places in Caria next to Trapezopolis,
vant. This district was almost purely should be corrected to Attouda, as has
Turkish till the railway was made ; but been remarked by almost every writer
since then Greeks are steadily occupying on the subject.