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276 IX. PHRYGIAN CITIES ON PISIDIAN FRONTIER.
lying in the country between the two great salt lakes Anava and
Askania. When we explore this large broken and difficult country
(which however is rich as a pasture-land, and has also some fine
glens and stretches of arable land), we find, besides a very few scat-
tered traces of antiquity elsewhere, two sites and centres of ancient
life, one at Kaya-dibi near the S.E. end of Salda-lake \ the other at
Yarashli. The former is probably to be identified with Keretapa;
the latter is certainly Takina.
The arguments for the identification of Keretapa are indirect, and
therefore less satisfactory ; but no other alternative seems open. At
Kaya-dibi there is a large pedestal with the dedication AIEI K AIC A PI
(inscr. 132). Here the reigning emperor is identified with the local
deity Zeus Savazios (§ 5). Now the title Diocaesareia had been
assumed at least as early as the time of Commodus 2 (of course with
imperial or senatorial sanction) by Keretapa; and the title implies
that at Keretapa there existed precisely such a cult. The foundation
probably took place under Domitian, whose identification with Zeus
formed an important point in the state-policy of the time3. Some
regulation of S.W. Phrygia took place under his reign, and Sala
assumed the name Domitianopolis. See p. 178 n.
There is one fact Avhich suggests for Keretapa a situation towards
Apameia. These two cities, along with Siblia, form a numismatic
group, distinguished by using magistrates' names with the preposition
napd (cp. Ch. V § 5). For example
TTAP- AnOAAHNlOY- ANAPONIKOY- KEPETATTEnN: type He-
rakles (Commodus).
TTAPA ■ CTPATONIKIANOY • ATTAMEnN
nA-ePMOY-nANeTYPIAPXOY-AnAMEHN: type lion (Valerian).
TTAPA-MHNOAOTOY- K • MAIANHC -CGIBAIANnN : type Athena
(Geta)4.
These numismatic facts show that Keretapa was in the conventus
1 The lake is larger, and of a different 3 Hadrian was also identified with Zeus
shape from the form given in Kiei^ert's Olympios; but the identification, though
map. It extends much further to the wide-spread owing to his popularity,
north. Kaya-dibi is the Bazar, and does not appear to have been insisted
Satirlar (two miles distant) the govern- on as politically important. Diocae-
ment centre, of the Nahya Irle (so pro- sareia-Prakana among the Kennatai in
nounced; Kiepert gives the official Isauria assumed the title under Domi-
name as Iborle on one of his maps, but tian ; and of Diocaesareia-Nazianzos
not the most recent, where he has Irle). probably the same holds, though evi-
2 The earliest coin with the' name dence fails.
Diocaesareia known to me is of Com- i Maiane, wife of Menodotos, p. 226.
modus.
lying in the country between the two great salt lakes Anava and
Askania. When we explore this large broken and difficult country
(which however is rich as a pasture-land, and has also some fine
glens and stretches of arable land), we find, besides a very few scat-
tered traces of antiquity elsewhere, two sites and centres of ancient
life, one at Kaya-dibi near the S.E. end of Salda-lake \ the other at
Yarashli. The former is probably to be identified with Keretapa;
the latter is certainly Takina.
The arguments for the identification of Keretapa are indirect, and
therefore less satisfactory ; but no other alternative seems open. At
Kaya-dibi there is a large pedestal with the dedication AIEI K AIC A PI
(inscr. 132). Here the reigning emperor is identified with the local
deity Zeus Savazios (§ 5). Now the title Diocaesareia had been
assumed at least as early as the time of Commodus 2 (of course with
imperial or senatorial sanction) by Keretapa; and the title implies
that at Keretapa there existed precisely such a cult. The foundation
probably took place under Domitian, whose identification with Zeus
formed an important point in the state-policy of the time3. Some
regulation of S.W. Phrygia took place under his reign, and Sala
assumed the name Domitianopolis. See p. 178 n.
There is one fact Avhich suggests for Keretapa a situation towards
Apameia. These two cities, along with Siblia, form a numismatic
group, distinguished by using magistrates' names with the preposition
napd (cp. Ch. V § 5). For example
TTAP- AnOAAHNlOY- ANAPONIKOY- KEPETATTEnN: type He-
rakles (Commodus).
TTAPA ■ CTPATONIKIANOY • ATTAMEnN
nA-ePMOY-nANeTYPIAPXOY-AnAMEHN: type lion (Valerian).
TTAPA-MHNOAOTOY- K • MAIANHC -CGIBAIANnN : type Athena
(Geta)4.
These numismatic facts show that Keretapa was in the conventus
1 The lake is larger, and of a different 3 Hadrian was also identified with Zeus
shape from the form given in Kiei^ert's Olympios; but the identification, though
map. It extends much further to the wide-spread owing to his popularity,
north. Kaya-dibi is the Bazar, and does not appear to have been insisted
Satirlar (two miles distant) the govern- on as politically important. Diocae-
ment centre, of the Nahya Irle (so pro- sareia-Prakana among the Kennatai in
nounced; Kiepert gives the official Isauria assumed the title under Domi-
name as Iborle on one of his maps, but tian ; and of Diocaesareia-Nazianzos
not the most recent, where he has Irle). probably the same holds, though evi-
2 The earliest coin with the' name dence fails.
Diocaesareia known to me is of Com- i Maiane, wife of Menodotos, p. 226.
modus.