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186 V. PHRYGIAN CITIES OF THE LOWER MAEANDER.
§ 5; his order would place it further down the river than Karia. In
this direction we find the name still in use. The river Morsynos, which
flows from Aphrodisias past Antiocheia into the Maeander, is called
Dandala-Su, ' the-water-of-Tantalos V Tantalos then was the mediaeval
name for the district along the south bank of the Maeander towards
Antiocheia. The name Morsynos may probably be connected with
Marsyas, cp. no. 32.
4. Hylabima, according to the order of Hierocles, should be between
Antioch and Harpasa. But according to Stephanus, Hyllarima lay above
Stratonicea ; and this expression denotes a situation on a higher plateau
traversed by a road from the lower valley of Stratonicea (Ch. VIII § 1).
The few references connect it with the west coast. The Icoinon of the
Hyllarimeis, as friends and kindred, sent ambassadors to Halicarnassos
{Bull. Gorr. Hell. 1890 p. 94); and the demos in conjunction with Miletos,
Iasos, Parion, Bargylia, Herakleia, Cos, and Marathesion2, honoured
a citizen of Alabanda, Hence, when Eupolemos in 314 was sent from
some point near the coast (probably Mylasa) to lay an ambush Trepl
KAT7PIMA rfjs Kaptay for the army of Ptolemy Antigonus's general, we
may correct to YAAPIMA and suppose that the situation was on the road
leading from Mylasa (which was probably the city of Eupolemos) to
Stratonicea 3. M. Berard appears to have discovered the actual site near
a village Karadja Assar; but he gives no clue to the situation except the
vague phrase entre Meles el JEski-IIissar.
It is clear, therefore, that there is a dislocation in Hierocles's list:
Hylarima and Iasos have been torn from their proper place.
5. Harmala is mentioned as a small town, where in a.d. 1190 the
pretender Alexius maintained himself for a brief space (Nicetas 549, 552;
Ephraem. 6047). Near it was a castle Pissa. The inference that
Harmala was in the Maeander valley is suggested by the terms in which
Nicetas mentions the subject, and so Haase assumes in his text p. 274.
But in his note he remarks more correctly that Harmala probably lay
further east and nearer Iconium. Nicetas says only that Alexius was
1 This river is erroneously called point is correct; and lie repeats the
Kara-Su by Kiepert and all the modern name Kara-Su in his latest map. The
travellers. Kara-Su is a town and bridge by which the road to Geira
a governmental centre on a tributary crosses the river half-way up is called
of the Dandala-Su ; but I was repeatedly Tandala-Keupreu.
assured by natives that they distin- 2 So I correct the text of BCH 1886
guished the main river as Dandala or p. 311.
Tandala-Su from Kara-Su the town. 3 Diodorus XIX 68 : see Wroth in
I have not, however, convinced Prof. Numi$m. Chrou. 1891 p. 135 f.
Kiepert that my information on this
§ 5; his order would place it further down the river than Karia. In
this direction we find the name still in use. The river Morsynos, which
flows from Aphrodisias past Antiocheia into the Maeander, is called
Dandala-Su, ' the-water-of-Tantalos V Tantalos then was the mediaeval
name for the district along the south bank of the Maeander towards
Antiocheia. The name Morsynos may probably be connected with
Marsyas, cp. no. 32.
4. Hylabima, according to the order of Hierocles, should be between
Antioch and Harpasa. But according to Stephanus, Hyllarima lay above
Stratonicea ; and this expression denotes a situation on a higher plateau
traversed by a road from the lower valley of Stratonicea (Ch. VIII § 1).
The few references connect it with the west coast. The Icoinon of the
Hyllarimeis, as friends and kindred, sent ambassadors to Halicarnassos
{Bull. Gorr. Hell. 1890 p. 94); and the demos in conjunction with Miletos,
Iasos, Parion, Bargylia, Herakleia, Cos, and Marathesion2, honoured
a citizen of Alabanda, Hence, when Eupolemos in 314 was sent from
some point near the coast (probably Mylasa) to lay an ambush Trepl
KAT7PIMA rfjs Kaptay for the army of Ptolemy Antigonus's general, we
may correct to YAAPIMA and suppose that the situation was on the road
leading from Mylasa (which was probably the city of Eupolemos) to
Stratonicea 3. M. Berard appears to have discovered the actual site near
a village Karadja Assar; but he gives no clue to the situation except the
vague phrase entre Meles el JEski-IIissar.
It is clear, therefore, that there is a dislocation in Hierocles's list:
Hylarima and Iasos have been torn from their proper place.
5. Harmala is mentioned as a small town, where in a.d. 1190 the
pretender Alexius maintained himself for a brief space (Nicetas 549, 552;
Ephraem. 6047). Near it was a castle Pissa. The inference that
Harmala was in the Maeander valley is suggested by the terms in which
Nicetas mentions the subject, and so Haase assumes in his text p. 274.
But in his note he remarks more correctly that Harmala probably lay
further east and nearer Iconium. Nicetas says only that Alexius was
1 This river is erroneously called point is correct; and lie repeats the
Kara-Su by Kiepert and all the modern name Kara-Su in his latest map. The
travellers. Kara-Su is a town and bridge by which the road to Geira
a governmental centre on a tributary crosses the river half-way up is called
of the Dandala-Su ; but I was repeatedly Tandala-Keupreu.
assured by natives that they distin- 2 So I correct the text of BCH 1886
guished the main river as Dandala or p. 311.
Tandala-Su from Kara-Su the town. 3 Diodorus XIX 68 : see Wroth in
I have not, however, convinced Prof. Numi$m. Chrou. 1891 p. 135 f.
Kiepert that my information on this