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178 V. PHRYGIAN CITIES OF THE LOWER MAEANDER.
Hyaleis to the town Hyelion. The evidence amounts to this: the
bishopric was in Lydia, taken in the narrower Byzantine sense, and
near a bridge across the Maeander, which a Turkish army, returning
from a raid down the valley as far as Tralleis and the sea, would
cross on its way to Iconium. Now Byzantine Lydia reached to the
Maeander only in the Lycos valley and 15 or 20 miles above it; and
no road by which the Turks could go would cross the river above the
Lycos valley. Further, if the bridge had been close to Tripolis, it
would naturally be termed ' the bridge at Tripolis.' We are therefore
led to the conclusion that the bridge was situated close to the junc-
tion between the Lycos and the Maeander. Hyelion, therefore, would
be on the Lydian side near the river. Now there is room for a city
here, for we have found no reason to place any city on this side of the
Maeander between Tripolis and Brioula. Daldis then was situated
between these two cities, on the right bank of the Maeander; and
Hyelion was situated on the hills above it, i. e. on the spur of Messo-
gis which has been described Ch. I § 2 as projecting towards the
east into the valley a few miles south of Tripolis.
M. Imhoof-Blumer informs me that coins prove that Daldis was for
a time called Caesareia1. It is possible that this is the city mentioned
as 6 Sfjfios 6 KaLcrapeav in an inscription of Antiocheia, found in 1893
by Kubitschek and Reichel (see Addenda); Tralleis however bore the
title Caesareia2, and so did Cibyra.
As the small valley of Tripolis and Apollonos-Hieron seems well
filled by them alone (App. Ill), we should probably have to look for
Daldis on the south side of the spur of Messogis, rather than on the
north side. Daldis, then, may possibly be found hereafter near
Ortakche or Kizil-Dere (Ch. I § 1), adjoining Brioula on the west and
Apollonos-Hieron on the north. Hyelion would be found on the
eastern end of the spur of Messogis, overhanging the valley and the
Maeander.
M. Imhoof-Blumer informs me that the coins of Daldis afford no
evidence against this situation ; and he adds that the coinage appears
to him to be too rich and varied to suit a situation in the Katake-
kaumene near Saittai and Kadoi. This consideration then leaves us
between two alternatives : either we must follow the order of the
1 He also says that at a later time it further north. See p. 276.
took the name Plaviopolis. Sala-Domi- - So Pliny V 120 gives Caesarienses in
tianopolis and Keretapa-Diocaesareia the conventus of Ephesos, but in that
attest by their second names the action case it is almost certain that Tralleis is
of the Flavian dynasty in this dis- meant; and the analogy is an argument
trict; as Flaviopolis-Temenothyrai does for this case also.
Hyaleis to the town Hyelion. The evidence amounts to this: the
bishopric was in Lydia, taken in the narrower Byzantine sense, and
near a bridge across the Maeander, which a Turkish army, returning
from a raid down the valley as far as Tralleis and the sea, would
cross on its way to Iconium. Now Byzantine Lydia reached to the
Maeander only in the Lycos valley and 15 or 20 miles above it; and
no road by which the Turks could go would cross the river above the
Lycos valley. Further, if the bridge had been close to Tripolis, it
would naturally be termed ' the bridge at Tripolis.' We are therefore
led to the conclusion that the bridge was situated close to the junc-
tion between the Lycos and the Maeander. Hyelion, therefore, would
be on the Lydian side near the river. Now there is room for a city
here, for we have found no reason to place any city on this side of the
Maeander between Tripolis and Brioula. Daldis then was situated
between these two cities, on the right bank of the Maeander; and
Hyelion was situated on the hills above it, i. e. on the spur of Messo-
gis which has been described Ch. I § 2 as projecting towards the
east into the valley a few miles south of Tripolis.
M. Imhoof-Blumer informs me that coins prove that Daldis was for
a time called Caesareia1. It is possible that this is the city mentioned
as 6 Sfjfios 6 KaLcrapeav in an inscription of Antiocheia, found in 1893
by Kubitschek and Reichel (see Addenda); Tralleis however bore the
title Caesareia2, and so did Cibyra.
As the small valley of Tripolis and Apollonos-Hieron seems well
filled by them alone (App. Ill), we should probably have to look for
Daldis on the south side of the spur of Messogis, rather than on the
north side. Daldis, then, may possibly be found hereafter near
Ortakche or Kizil-Dere (Ch. I § 1), adjoining Brioula on the west and
Apollonos-Hieron on the north. Hyelion would be found on the
eastern end of the spur of Messogis, overhanging the valley and the
Maeander.
M. Imhoof-Blumer informs me that the coins of Daldis afford no
evidence against this situation ; and he adds that the coinage appears
to him to be too rich and varied to suit a situation in the Katake-
kaumene near Saittai and Kadoi. This consideration then leaves us
between two alternatives : either we must follow the order of the
1 He also says that at a later time it further north. See p. 276.
took the name Plaviopolis. Sala-Domi- - So Pliny V 120 gives Caesarienses in
tianopolis and Keretapa-Diocaesareia the conventus of Ephesos, but in that
attest by their second names the action case it is almost certain that Tralleis is
of the Flavian dynasty in this dis- meant; and the analogy is an argument
trict; as Flaviopolis-Temenothyrai does for this case also.