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11. BALD IS. 179
Notitiae and look for Daldis in a situation near Hierocaesareia or
Stratonikaia or Lydia, or we must take the suggestion here offered.
In the present state of the evidence nothing more definite can be
asserted.
In confirmation of this situation for Daldis, we observe that Zeus
Laodicenus appears on its coins ; and that a temple of Apollo is also
a prominent type on them \ It is quite possible that this temple
was the hieron which gave its name to the adjoining city, Apollonos-
Hieron. Analogy is in favour of the view that the hieron was out-
side of the Graeco-lloman city, and distinct from it. A coin of
Daldis represents the slaying of Medusa as taking place near this
temple ; the myth of Perseus is known in Asia Minor, both in Paph-
lagonia (Amastris and Sebaste) and in Lycaonia and Cilicia.
§ 12. Sala and Tralla. Sala is classed by numismatic writers
to Phrygia from the style of its coins ; and they are supported by the
authority of Ptolemy, who mentions it in the south-western district;
while the Byzantine lists assign it to Lydia. It therefore lay on the
frontier. Now as Blaundos is classed by Ptolemy and the numismatic
authorities to Phrygia, and by the Byzantine lists to Lydia, we may
look for Sala and Blaundos in the same direction. Further the
analogy between the coins of Sala and Laodiceia is marked, and we
should therefore expect the two cities to be within easy communica-
tion with each other; Sala then should be looked for on a road that
leads up from the Lycos valley northwards.
The Notitiae always mention Sala after Tralla. and this fact led me
to conjecture that the two were united under one bishop, and that
the conjunction connecting them (tjtoi) dropped accidentally (Hist.
Geogr. p. 132). Further study has confirmed this conjecture, though
no decisive evidence has as yet been discovered. I think that Sala
and Tralla were founded in conjunction to strengthen the Pergame-
nian influence against the Mysomakedones on the one side and the
Blaundeis-Makedones on the other. As a pair of Pergamenian foun-
dations not far from each other, they remained in close mutual rela-
tions, and this historical connexion showed itself in the ecclesiastical
system 2.
One of these cities must be looked for near the modern Geune, on
1 Von Sallet Zft. f. Numism. V 105, Hydrela and Hierapolis V § 9, and
Mionnet no. 178 and Suppl. no. 121. ' I feel confident that further investiga-
2 Other examples where an ancient tion will discover many more, when
unity or connexion between two cities this line of enquiry has once been
reappears in the ecclesiastical system suggested.
S,
N 2
Notitiae and look for Daldis in a situation near Hierocaesareia or
Stratonikaia or Lydia, or we must take the suggestion here offered.
In the present state of the evidence nothing more definite can be
asserted.
In confirmation of this situation for Daldis, we observe that Zeus
Laodicenus appears on its coins ; and that a temple of Apollo is also
a prominent type on them \ It is quite possible that this temple
was the hieron which gave its name to the adjoining city, Apollonos-
Hieron. Analogy is in favour of the view that the hieron was out-
side of the Graeco-lloman city, and distinct from it. A coin of
Daldis represents the slaying of Medusa as taking place near this
temple ; the myth of Perseus is known in Asia Minor, both in Paph-
lagonia (Amastris and Sebaste) and in Lycaonia and Cilicia.
§ 12. Sala and Tralla. Sala is classed by numismatic writers
to Phrygia from the style of its coins ; and they are supported by the
authority of Ptolemy, who mentions it in the south-western district;
while the Byzantine lists assign it to Lydia. It therefore lay on the
frontier. Now as Blaundos is classed by Ptolemy and the numismatic
authorities to Phrygia, and by the Byzantine lists to Lydia, we may
look for Sala and Blaundos in the same direction. Further the
analogy between the coins of Sala and Laodiceia is marked, and we
should therefore expect the two cities to be within easy communica-
tion with each other; Sala then should be looked for on a road that
leads up from the Lycos valley northwards.
The Notitiae always mention Sala after Tralla. and this fact led me
to conjecture that the two were united under one bishop, and that
the conjunction connecting them (tjtoi) dropped accidentally (Hist.
Geogr. p. 132). Further study has confirmed this conjecture, though
no decisive evidence has as yet been discovered. I think that Sala
and Tralla were founded in conjunction to strengthen the Pergame-
nian influence against the Mysomakedones on the one side and the
Blaundeis-Makedones on the other. As a pair of Pergamenian foun-
dations not far from each other, they remained in close mutual rela-
tions, and this historical connexion showed itself in the ecclesiastical
system 2.
One of these cities must be looked for near the modern Geune, on
1 Von Sallet Zft. f. Numism. V 105, Hydrela and Hierapolis V § 9, and
Mionnet no. 178 and Suppl. no. 121. ' I feel confident that further investiga-
2 Other examples where an ancient tion will discover many more, when
unity or connexion between two cities this line of enquiry has once been
reappears in the ecclesiastical system suggested.
S,
N 2