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82 AN EXCURSION IN PHRYGIA
found a boundary stone, letters roughly scratched on
a rock at the orders of an official, whose name also
occurs on two blocks of Synnadic marble which were
found in Rome : thus the three documents complete
each other, and prove that, in the reign of Trajan,
an imperial procurator at Synnada regulated the
boundaries between various tribes and cities of the
district, besides having the specifications inscribed
on blocks of marble for Rome under his responsi-
bility.
It then became obvious that our guide in 1888
was seeking either for that boundary stone or for
another of the same series. Now the stone which
we found was full three hours distant from Baghche-
Hissar, whereas the guide turned away from the
road a bare hour from the village. Moreover the
guide expected to find his stone a long way from
the road among the hills, whereas the inscription
which we found was only about fifty yards from the
road on the brow of a bare slope leading down to
the valley of Metropolis. The guide, therefore,
must have been looking for a different boundary
stone from that which we found ; and the conclusion
is that it remains for some more fortunate or more
skilful traveller than I to find the reported inscrip-
tion and probably to clear up the obscurities which
still envelop the topography of that district. He is
most likely to succeed, if he goes to the village
found a boundary stone, letters roughly scratched on
a rock at the orders of an official, whose name also
occurs on two blocks of Synnadic marble which were
found in Rome : thus the three documents complete
each other, and prove that, in the reign of Trajan,
an imperial procurator at Synnada regulated the
boundaries between various tribes and cities of the
district, besides having the specifications inscribed
on blocks of marble for Rome under his responsi-
bility.
It then became obvious that our guide in 1888
was seeking either for that boundary stone or for
another of the same series. Now the stone which
we found was full three hours distant from Baghche-
Hissar, whereas the guide turned away from the
road a bare hour from the village. Moreover the
guide expected to find his stone a long way from
the road among the hills, whereas the inscription
which we found was only about fifty yards from the
road on the brow of a bare slope leading down to
the valley of Metropolis. The guide, therefore,
must have been looking for a different boundary
stone from that which we found ; and the conclusion
is that it remains for some more fortunate or more
skilful traveller than I to find the reported inscrip-
tion and probably to clear up the obscurities which
still envelop the topography of that district. He is
most likely to succeed, if he goes to the village