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App. III. THE LYDO-PHRYGIAN FRONTIER. 193
by the Pergamenian kings l; and probably Tripolis was a Pergamenian
foundation, intended to counterbalance the Seleucid colony Laodiceia.
Both are situated on the road from Pergamos to the Pamphylian coast,
which must have been an extremely important road while Pergamos was
the ruling centre of western Asia Minor. The prosperity of Tripolis was
naturally greater under Pergamenian rule, but dwindled when the roads
radiating from Pergamos lost their importance ; whilst Laodiceia, as
situated on the Eastern Highway, profited by the losses of its rival.
Perhaps the Romans, in drawing the limit of the Cibyratic conventus at
the frontier between Laodiceia and Tripolis, had regard to the mutual
jealousy of the two cities. In arranging their conventus, as Strabo
P- 629 says, they paid no regard to divisions of race; and there must
have been some other reason why two cities in full view of one another
were assigned to different conventus.
The inscription IEPATIKOZ on coins of Tripolis under Augustus is
remarkable2. It seems, according to analogy, to mean ' belonging to
a priestly family'; and it perhaps implies that the priesthood of Leto
and Apollo was hereditary in a certain family. If so, we may compare
this priesthood with what we have learned about the priesthood of
Laodiceia Ch. II §§ 5 and 7 (a).
Pliny mentions that Tripolis adopted the name Antoniopolis, which
shows that, when Antony rewarded the fidelity of the Zenonids of
Laodiceia, he did not wholly neglect Tripolis; and the city in gratitude
for his favour took his name.
Nothing is known of the history of Apollonia-Tripolis-Antoniopolis.
It worshipped the same goddess Leto, whom we have seen at Hierapolis
Ch. Ill § 3 ; and we may safely conclude that it was formed out of a union
of three villages (kw/xcu) of the original population of the valley 3. Thus
we find games AHTnei A • FTYGIA at Tripolis, as at Hierapolis, and the
type of Serapis (with legend ZeYC-CePAfTIC), while that of Zeus
Laodicenus is common to both cities alone- with Laodiceia. Coins com-
1 The situation on the extreme outer coin, which shows a hero on horseback
gentle slope, where lofty hills begin to 1. above a maeander (cp. Imhoof-Blumer
rise up from the plain, is of the Perga- GM no. 425), has the epithet without
menian type (Hist. Geogr. p. 86). Prof. a name ; but perhaps the legend is im-
G. Hirschfeld first pointed out that the perfect.
names Apollonis and Apollonia were s It is noteworthy that the name
favoured in Pergamenian foundations Derebol is still in use, but it indicates,
{Gut. Gel. Anz. 1888 p. 592). Apollonis not a village, but a pass (dere) by which
was mother of Eumenes. one of the roads to Geune goes up from
2 We find the epithet accompanying the valley northwards. Was Tripolis an
the name Tryphon on a coin in Br. Mus. old native name, grecized in this form
with the type of Zeus standing. Another to give a meaning in Greek ?
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by the Pergamenian kings l; and probably Tripolis was a Pergamenian
foundation, intended to counterbalance the Seleucid colony Laodiceia.
Both are situated on the road from Pergamos to the Pamphylian coast,
which must have been an extremely important road while Pergamos was
the ruling centre of western Asia Minor. The prosperity of Tripolis was
naturally greater under Pergamenian rule, but dwindled when the roads
radiating from Pergamos lost their importance ; whilst Laodiceia, as
situated on the Eastern Highway, profited by the losses of its rival.
Perhaps the Romans, in drawing the limit of the Cibyratic conventus at
the frontier between Laodiceia and Tripolis, had regard to the mutual
jealousy of the two cities. In arranging their conventus, as Strabo
P- 629 says, they paid no regard to divisions of race; and there must
have been some other reason why two cities in full view of one another
were assigned to different conventus.
The inscription IEPATIKOZ on coins of Tripolis under Augustus is
remarkable2. It seems, according to analogy, to mean ' belonging to
a priestly family'; and it perhaps implies that the priesthood of Leto
and Apollo was hereditary in a certain family. If so, we may compare
this priesthood with what we have learned about the priesthood of
Laodiceia Ch. II §§ 5 and 7 (a).
Pliny mentions that Tripolis adopted the name Antoniopolis, which
shows that, when Antony rewarded the fidelity of the Zenonids of
Laodiceia, he did not wholly neglect Tripolis; and the city in gratitude
for his favour took his name.
Nothing is known of the history of Apollonia-Tripolis-Antoniopolis.
It worshipped the same goddess Leto, whom we have seen at Hierapolis
Ch. Ill § 3 ; and we may safely conclude that it was formed out of a union
of three villages (kw/xcu) of the original population of the valley 3. Thus
we find games AHTnei A • FTYGIA at Tripolis, as at Hierapolis, and the
type of Serapis (with legend ZeYC-CePAfTIC), while that of Zeus
Laodicenus is common to both cities alone- with Laodiceia. Coins com-
1 The situation on the extreme outer coin, which shows a hero on horseback
gentle slope, where lofty hills begin to 1. above a maeander (cp. Imhoof-Blumer
rise up from the plain, is of the Perga- GM no. 425), has the epithet without
menian type (Hist. Geogr. p. 86). Prof. a name ; but perhaps the legend is im-
G. Hirschfeld first pointed out that the perfect.
names Apollonis and Apollonia were s It is noteworthy that the name
favoured in Pergamenian foundations Derebol is still in use, but it indicates,
{Gut. Gel. Anz. 1888 p. 592). Apollonis not a village, but a pass (dere) by which
was mother of Eumenes. one of the roads to Geune goes up from
2 We find the epithet accompanying the valley northwards. Was Tripolis an
the name Tryphon on a coin in Br. Mus. old native name, grecized in this form
with the type of Zeus standing. Another to give a meaning in Greek ?
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