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28o IX. PHRYGIAN CITIES ON PISIDIAN FRONTIER.
good. Tefeni was probably subject to Cibyra 130-84 B.C., and main-
tained the connexion on its milestones and in its way of dating
(pp.286, 296, 291, 330).
§ 3. Milyadic or Killanian Estates. In the valley round Tefeni
a series of inscriptions have been found which enable us to reconstruct
the history of the district with a completeness which is unusual in
this country1, and which makes it a model for the investigation of
other regions. The exploration of the country was begun by Schon-
born, whose copies of a few of the inscriptions did not reveal their im-
portance (see CIG 4366 w). MM. Duchesne and Collignon have given
a better and fuller collection (BCH 1878 and 1879). A still fuller collec-
tion is published by Prof. J. R. S. Sterrett in his Epigraphio Journey
nos. 38-72 from copies by himself, Mr. A. H. Smith, and me2.
The superscriptions of inscr. 124-9 are the foundation of the theory
set forth in the following pages3. It was stated in Hist. Geogr.
p. 172 f, where the grounds for it are given ; and, as these have been,
I think, generally admitted to be correct4, they need not be repeated.
I shall therefore for the most part merely state results without reasons,
adding in various points to the theory as stated in Hist. Geogr. 1. c,
and making some improvements.
The population of the district struck no coins. The failure of
coinage in such a rich district is due to the fact that the land was
imperial property. There seem to have been three estates, one of
which (and evidently the chief one) was inhabited by the Ormeleis,
a people never elsewhere mentioned6. It was probably situated
about Tefeni, Sazak, and Karamanli. The second had probably its
1 It is remarkable that the erjigraphic lowing theory most relies are given dif-
records of obscure districts are often so ferently or even wholly omitted by
much more complete ; but the reason Prof. Sterrett, it is necessary to men-
is that the greater districts lie on the tion that where I differ from him merely
frequented lines of modern communi- as regards transcription, I leave the
cation and have been more open to reader to judge for himself, but in a
spoliation for modern buildings. few points where I differ as regards the
2 Some few notes on his copies have epigraphic text of the inscriptions of
been published by MM. Berard and Karamanli (which I did not see in
Fougeres in BCH 1892 p. 418; but I 1884), I depend on an inspection of the
can accept hardly any of their varia- opening lines which I made in 1886.
tions. M. Cousin has also travelled in One very important date has been re-
the country, and published one inscrip- stored by an excavation which I was
tion BCH 1884 p. 497 ; but he has not able to make then.
mentioned the important series; and 4 See Berl. Sitzungsher. 1891 p. 868,874.
I presume that he found the other ° Unless [Latri]leon in Bcw. Geogr.
publication satisfactory. Anon, be an error caused by assimila-
3 I have quoted them in § 4 ; but as tion of [Ormejleon to the preceding
several of the points on which the fol- Filaction.
good. Tefeni was probably subject to Cibyra 130-84 B.C., and main-
tained the connexion on its milestones and in its way of dating
(pp.286, 296, 291, 330).
§ 3. Milyadic or Killanian Estates. In the valley round Tefeni
a series of inscriptions have been found which enable us to reconstruct
the history of the district with a completeness which is unusual in
this country1, and which makes it a model for the investigation of
other regions. The exploration of the country was begun by Schon-
born, whose copies of a few of the inscriptions did not reveal their im-
portance (see CIG 4366 w). MM. Duchesne and Collignon have given
a better and fuller collection (BCH 1878 and 1879). A still fuller collec-
tion is published by Prof. J. R. S. Sterrett in his Epigraphio Journey
nos. 38-72 from copies by himself, Mr. A. H. Smith, and me2.
The superscriptions of inscr. 124-9 are the foundation of the theory
set forth in the following pages3. It was stated in Hist. Geogr.
p. 172 f, where the grounds for it are given ; and, as these have been,
I think, generally admitted to be correct4, they need not be repeated.
I shall therefore for the most part merely state results without reasons,
adding in various points to the theory as stated in Hist. Geogr. 1. c,
and making some improvements.
The population of the district struck no coins. The failure of
coinage in such a rich district is due to the fact that the land was
imperial property. There seem to have been three estates, one of
which (and evidently the chief one) was inhabited by the Ormeleis,
a people never elsewhere mentioned6. It was probably situated
about Tefeni, Sazak, and Karamanli. The second had probably its
1 It is remarkable that the erjigraphic lowing theory most relies are given dif-
records of obscure districts are often so ferently or even wholly omitted by
much more complete ; but the reason Prof. Sterrett, it is necessary to men-
is that the greater districts lie on the tion that where I differ from him merely
frequented lines of modern communi- as regards transcription, I leave the
cation and have been more open to reader to judge for himself, but in a
spoliation for modern buildings. few points where I differ as regards the
2 Some few notes on his copies have epigraphic text of the inscriptions of
been published by MM. Berard and Karamanli (which I did not see in
Fougeres in BCH 1892 p. 418; but I 1884), I depend on an inspection of the
can accept hardly any of their varia- opening lines which I made in 1886.
tions. M. Cousin has also travelled in One very important date has been re-
the country, and published one inscrip- stored by an excavation which I was
tion BCH 1884 p. 497 ; but he has not able to make then.
mentioned the important series; and 4 See Berl. Sitzungsher. 1891 p. 868,874.
I presume that he found the other ° Unless [Latri]leon in Bcw. Geogr.
publication satisfactory. Anon, be an error caused by assimila-
3 I have quoted them in § 4 ; but as tion of [Ormejleon to the preceding
several of the points on which the fol- Filaction.