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3. THE MILYADIC OR KILLANIAN ESTATES. 283
inscriptions l. In one case there seem to be two who form a sort of
board 2.
The inscriptions also show that these imperial estates passed out of
the hands of the reigning emperor into the possession of a branch of
the imperial family, probably by a gift of M. Aurelius to his niece.
The inscriptions usually begin with a vow for the health of the owners,
and a comparison of them leads us in § 4 to a hypothesis which fills
up some blank spaces in the imperial family history.
The native population (o^Ao?, po'pulus plebeius) united in societies
which met in the worship of Zeus Sabazios ; and individuals appear
frequently to have inade contributions for the comfort and benefit of
the community (erifirjae tov oy\ov, plebem ornavlt ?). See § 4 and 5.
The strict and correct term for a group of estates was tractus, as
Mommsen points out in Hermes 1880 p. 400. Now Pliny mentions
a tractus Cyllanicus on the frontier of the province Galatia, and
evidently on the Pisidian side. We then should naturally infer that
the tractus Cyllanicus is this group of Phrygian or Pisidian estates;
and already by a totally different line of argument we have been led
to the conclusion that the Cyllanian or Killanian plain was the
Gebren-Ova. That conclusion may therefore be now regarded as
definitely proved ; and we thereby find a proof of the existence of the
estates in the middle of the first century after Christ.
We now look for traces of their later history ; and, as usual, we turn
first to Hierocles. In enumerating the cities of Pamphylia he goes
from Termessos northwards along the west side of the province ; and
after finishing the Taurus valley (Perminounda to Isinda), he gives
next Myodia3, then the 'Milyadic Estates' (y^wpta MlXvclSiko), and
then Olbasa, and then he goes down the Lysis valley to Palaiapolis,
Lysinia, and Kolbasa. To judge from his order, therefore, the Mily-
adic estates were higher up the Lysis than Olbasa, and precisely in
that situation we have found that the great Killanian imperial estates
were situated. The identity of the Milyadic estates with the Killanian
or Ormelian estates then seems beyond dispute.
1 A proagon at Seleuoeia, Sterrett EJ nainounda must now be read in place of
89, WE 465. Perminoda in the inscriptions of the
2 St. 72 A 6 eV« irpoayuvTav Mr/vidos Sij district: it is quite consistent with the
NdKadov, 'AttoKov 'OcrneT. They are both epigraphic text of the two local inscrip-
well known (cp. 41 A 17, 53 A 31, 44 B 6 tions that give the name, and occurs
as corrected below, 38 C 3). in Atli. Mitth. 1887 p. 250. Hierocles
3 This unknown name is perhaps goes in an orderly way, ascending the
either corrupt (the bishop o Aayrjvav Tauros, crossing to the source of the
does not appear anywhere in Hierocles) Lysis, and descending the Lysis to lake
or a dittography of MiXvaStxn. Per- Askania.
inscriptions l. In one case there seem to be two who form a sort of
board 2.
The inscriptions also show that these imperial estates passed out of
the hands of the reigning emperor into the possession of a branch of
the imperial family, probably by a gift of M. Aurelius to his niece.
The inscriptions usually begin with a vow for the health of the owners,
and a comparison of them leads us in § 4 to a hypothesis which fills
up some blank spaces in the imperial family history.
The native population (o^Ao?, po'pulus plebeius) united in societies
which met in the worship of Zeus Sabazios ; and individuals appear
frequently to have inade contributions for the comfort and benefit of
the community (erifirjae tov oy\ov, plebem ornavlt ?). See § 4 and 5.
The strict and correct term for a group of estates was tractus, as
Mommsen points out in Hermes 1880 p. 400. Now Pliny mentions
a tractus Cyllanicus on the frontier of the province Galatia, and
evidently on the Pisidian side. We then should naturally infer that
the tractus Cyllanicus is this group of Phrygian or Pisidian estates;
and already by a totally different line of argument we have been led
to the conclusion that the Cyllanian or Killanian plain was the
Gebren-Ova. That conclusion may therefore be now regarded as
definitely proved ; and we thereby find a proof of the existence of the
estates in the middle of the first century after Christ.
We now look for traces of their later history ; and, as usual, we turn
first to Hierocles. In enumerating the cities of Pamphylia he goes
from Termessos northwards along the west side of the province ; and
after finishing the Taurus valley (Perminounda to Isinda), he gives
next Myodia3, then the 'Milyadic Estates' (y^wpta MlXvclSiko), and
then Olbasa, and then he goes down the Lysis valley to Palaiapolis,
Lysinia, and Kolbasa. To judge from his order, therefore, the Mily-
adic estates were higher up the Lysis than Olbasa, and precisely in
that situation we have found that the great Killanian imperial estates
were situated. The identity of the Milyadic estates with the Killanian
or Ormelian estates then seems beyond dispute.
1 A proagon at Seleuoeia, Sterrett EJ nainounda must now be read in place of
89, WE 465. Perminoda in the inscriptions of the
2 St. 72 A 6 eV« irpoayuvTav Mr/vidos Sij district: it is quite consistent with the
NdKadov, 'AttoKov 'OcrneT. They are both epigraphic text of the two local inscrip-
well known (cp. 41 A 17, 53 A 31, 44 B 6 tions that give the name, and occurs
as corrected below, 38 C 3). in Atli. Mitth. 1887 p. 250. Hierocles
3 This unknown name is perhaps goes in an orderly way, ascending the
either corrupt (the bishop o Aayrjvav Tauros, crossing to the source of the
does not appear anywhere in Hierocles) Lysis, and descending the Lysis to lake
or a dittography of MiXvaStxn. Per- Askania.