64 AN EXCURSION IN PHRYGIA
from Greeks and Romans in the superficial view
which alone was permitted us in the dearth of
evidence.
The foundations of an answer to this question,
so far as concerns Phrygia, are laid by this in-
scription. Julia Severa, who is mentioned in it as a
leader and benefactor among the Jewish people,
is named frequently on coins of Akmonia. In no
other case is any single individual mentioned so
often on the coins of any city in the country.
If she was a Jewess, the Jews must have enjoyed
great influence and honour in Akmonia; and from
this beginning we are led on through a series of
identifications to the theory of Jewish power in
Phrygia, which is stated in my chapter on "The
Jews in Phrygia".1 I have been told that a
distinguished German scholar has found a new
inscription throwing much additional and corro-
borative light on the subject.
Late in the afternoon we reached a considerable
village, where I felt much inclined to halt for the
night; but as it wanted still a full hour to sunset,
and a village Hamil-Keui was reported an hour
ahead, we very unwillingly rode on, leaving one of
the men to make sure that the muleteer, who was
some distance behind, should come on to Hamil-
Keui. We had to cross a ridge of bare hills, of no
1 Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia, ch. xv.
from Greeks and Romans in the superficial view
which alone was permitted us in the dearth of
evidence.
The foundations of an answer to this question,
so far as concerns Phrygia, are laid by this in-
scription. Julia Severa, who is mentioned in it as a
leader and benefactor among the Jewish people,
is named frequently on coins of Akmonia. In no
other case is any single individual mentioned so
often on the coins of any city in the country.
If she was a Jewess, the Jews must have enjoyed
great influence and honour in Akmonia; and from
this beginning we are led on through a series of
identifications to the theory of Jewish power in
Phrygia, which is stated in my chapter on "The
Jews in Phrygia".1 I have been told that a
distinguished German scholar has found a new
inscription throwing much additional and corro-
borative light on the subject.
Late in the afternoon we reached a considerable
village, where I felt much inclined to halt for the
night; but as it wanted still a full hour to sunset,
and a village Hamil-Keui was reported an hour
ahead, we very unwillingly rode on, leaving one of
the men to make sure that the muleteer, who was
some distance behind, should come on to Hamil-
Keui. We had to cross a ridge of bare hills, of no
1 Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia, ch. xv.