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62 AN EXCURSION IN PHRYGIA
by unvisited ; but this produced only six insignifi-
cant epitaphs.
VI. This forenoon, our road lay up one of the
great passes of history, or rather a pass never
actually mentioned in history, but great in actual
fact. A number of roads from the west and south
meet near Keramon-Agora, ascend the glen down
which Hammam-Su (Bath-River) flows into Banaz-
Ova, and diverge towards north and east on the
high ground above the sources of that river. Al-
though my aim had always been to try new routes
every journey, yet this was the eighth time I had
gone up or down that pass ; and here, in the first
village we came to after leaving Keramon-Agora,
I made the best find of this journey, and one of the
most important that has ever fallen to my lot.
Having often been in this village, I did not intend
to stop there ; but, as we rode through, we halted
for a moment to speak to a native who recognised
me from of old. He told us of a new " written
stone "; and we dismounted and went under his
charge to a good house, with a verandah, one of
whose supporting columns rested on the inscribed
face of an ancient marble, concealing great part of
the letters. Enough, however, remained to show the
general drift and most of the important details of
the text. It was an inscription erected by the
synagogue in honour of a woman, Julia Severa, who
by unvisited ; but this produced only six insignifi-
cant epitaphs.
VI. This forenoon, our road lay up one of the
great passes of history, or rather a pass never
actually mentioned in history, but great in actual
fact. A number of roads from the west and south
meet near Keramon-Agora, ascend the glen down
which Hammam-Su (Bath-River) flows into Banaz-
Ova, and diverge towards north and east on the
high ground above the sources of that river. Al-
though my aim had always been to try new routes
every journey, yet this was the eighth time I had
gone up or down that pass ; and here, in the first
village we came to after leaving Keramon-Agora,
I made the best find of this journey, and one of the
most important that has ever fallen to my lot.
Having often been in this village, I did not intend
to stop there ; but, as we rode through, we halted
for a moment to speak to a native who recognised
me from of old. He told us of a new " written
stone "; and we dismounted and went under his
charge to a good house, with a verandah, one of
whose supporting columns rested on the inscribed
face of an ancient marble, concealing great part of
the letters. Enough, however, remained to show the
general drift and most of the important details of
the text. It was an inscription erected by the
synagogue in honour of a woman, Julia Severa, who