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192 V. PHRYGIAN CITIES OF THE LOWER MAEANDER.
a village now called Billara (near the railway station, Kuyujak), which
retains the old name in a slightly modified form r, Mr. Hogarth, who
visited the site in 1887, reported ruins without inscriptions. On coins o£
Brioula MHTHP-OE.QN and HA IOC are mentioned, in whom we recognize
the same divine pair as at Hierapolis, the Mother and the Son.
2. Tripolis. Above the junction with the Lycos the Maeander was
generally taken as the limit between Lydia and Phrygia for a consider-
able distance. Overhanging the Maeander on the west (see p. 4), on the
outermost slope of the northern hills, was situated the city of Tripolis,
geographically included in the cleft which we call the Lycos valley, yet
historically always a city of Lydia. It was included in the conventus of
Sardis. Ptolemy and Stephanus place it in Caria; but an inscription,
which shows the late lettering of the third century, calls it Maeonian
Tripolis and proves that the inhabitants assigned it to Lydia.
74 (R. 1883: published by M. Paris BCH 1884 p. 378 with less
complete text).
'Ayadfi Tvxy-
Et/ccbz> 'EpfioA.doto, tov r}tt;r\<r£ Trapos p.ev
Maiovlri TpiiroXis, 'Pco/x?js 8' eviK&OOero (3ovArj'
Et be OeXeLs yeveTjv xai einipaTa (pya [irv]8[i<T]6aL,
Mdprvpes evvairaL irokios kcu bmpLara Kkeiva.
M. Imhoof-Blumer now attributes to Tripolis coins nos. 423-5 in his
OriecJiische Miinzen, which have the legend ATTOAAflN IATHN and
a lion, or Apollo, or an Amazon on horseback, in every case standing on
a Maeander, as the reverse type. The type of a horseman on 435 is
identical with that on coins of Tripolis struck under Augustus. Previously
he attributed these coins to Apollonia of Caria; but it seems hardly safe
to suppose that that city would see the Maeander type on coins merely
because it was on a tributary of the Maeander, viz. the Harpasos ; more-
over these coins do not resemble the certain coins of Apollonia Salbake.
It might indeed be suggested that Apollonos-Hieron struck these coins :
the agreement with Tripolis in type is natural in a neighbouring city.
We might suppose that it struck originally under the name Apollonia,
and adopted the longer name under Augustus for the sake of distinction
from the numerous other cities Apollonia. The point is a difficult one ;
but for the present it is perhaps safer to defer to the great experience of
M. Imhoof-Blumer, and follow his opinion as the more probable 2.
The name Apollonia is specially common among the colonies planted
1 My friend, Mr. E. Purser, told me Tripolis was a Pergamenian foundation
of this survival in 1881. before M. Imhoof-Blumer communi-
2
The situation led me to think that cated his view to me.
a village now called Billara (near the railway station, Kuyujak), which
retains the old name in a slightly modified form r, Mr. Hogarth, who
visited the site in 1887, reported ruins without inscriptions. On coins o£
Brioula MHTHP-OE.QN and HA IOC are mentioned, in whom we recognize
the same divine pair as at Hierapolis, the Mother and the Son.
2. Tripolis. Above the junction with the Lycos the Maeander was
generally taken as the limit between Lydia and Phrygia for a consider-
able distance. Overhanging the Maeander on the west (see p. 4), on the
outermost slope of the northern hills, was situated the city of Tripolis,
geographically included in the cleft which we call the Lycos valley, yet
historically always a city of Lydia. It was included in the conventus of
Sardis. Ptolemy and Stephanus place it in Caria; but an inscription,
which shows the late lettering of the third century, calls it Maeonian
Tripolis and proves that the inhabitants assigned it to Lydia.
74 (R. 1883: published by M. Paris BCH 1884 p. 378 with less
complete text).
'Ayadfi Tvxy-
Et/ccbz> 'EpfioA.doto, tov r}tt;r\<r£ Trapos p.ev
Maiovlri TpiiroXis, 'Pco/x?js 8' eviK&OOero (3ovArj'
Et be OeXeLs yeveTjv xai einipaTa (pya [irv]8[i<T]6aL,
Mdprvpes evvairaL irokios kcu bmpLara Kkeiva.
M. Imhoof-Blumer now attributes to Tripolis coins nos. 423-5 in his
OriecJiische Miinzen, which have the legend ATTOAAflN IATHN and
a lion, or Apollo, or an Amazon on horseback, in every case standing on
a Maeander, as the reverse type. The type of a horseman on 435 is
identical with that on coins of Tripolis struck under Augustus. Previously
he attributed these coins to Apollonia of Caria; but it seems hardly safe
to suppose that that city would see the Maeander type on coins merely
because it was on a tributary of the Maeander, viz. the Harpasos ; more-
over these coins do not resemble the certain coins of Apollonia Salbake.
It might indeed be suggested that Apollonos-Hieron struck these coins :
the agreement with Tripolis in type is natural in a neighbouring city.
We might suppose that it struck originally under the name Apollonia,
and adopted the longer name under Augustus for the sake of distinction
from the numerous other cities Apollonia. The point is a difficult one ;
but for the present it is perhaps safer to defer to the great experience of
M. Imhoof-Blumer, and follow his opinion as the more probable 2.
The name Apollonia is specially common among the colonies planted
1 My friend, Mr. E. Purser, told me Tripolis was a Pergamenian foundation
of this survival in 1881. before M. Imhoof-Blumer communi-
2
The situation led me to think that cated his view to me.