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354 X; EUMEN EI A.
it may have been a stronghold at an earlier or a later period.
Beneath this peak, and occupying part of the site of Eumeneia, is
the modern village Ishekli.
From the base of this peak, at the eastern edge of the city, spring
very copious fountains, which run south into the plain, and cause
enormous marshes, being unable to find a way to the Maeander across
the almost dead level. In the nourishing period of the Koman
empire, the marshes were no doubt drained, and a channel kept in
good order to carry off the water to the Maeander1: the stream was
apparently called Kloudros. The Glaukos was perhaps the Kufu-
Tchai, a tributary of the Maeander which drains the Sandykli-Ova
(the Phrygian Pentapolis) and passes about two miles west of
Eumeneia and two east of Peltai. But it is possible that the names
should be transposed2.
It is improbable that the Attalid colony was the earliest settlement
on the site of Eumeneia. Such a fine situation must have been
occupied from time immemorial: the bountiful fountains would
attract the peasantry of a primitive time. But the pre-Greek settle-
ment was doubtless constituted on the primitive Anatolian village
system 3, and was dependent on the central hieron of the valley.
The property of the god and of the hieron 4 probably extended as far
as the fountains of the Kloudros, for the priests generally had the
finest land, and these fountains were marked out by their natural
character as the gift of the god. Now, as we have observed already
in several cases, the Greek kings used part of the great temple-estates
' to plant colonies which should be personally attached to themselves,
garrisons to hold the country, and centres of Greek civilization'5;
1 At Smyrna the Meles flowed in an that the Cludrus was closer to the city
artificial channel: Aristides says (I p. 377 than the Glaucus. Paton suggests that
Dind.) mAijj 6 iiraHni/jLos Suopvx^v Nv/t- on coins only streams that flow through-
<paw ck m]ya>v (Siappti?) els dakaTrav, out the year are named : this, if correct,
avrats r eirat Xovrpov pvrbv kcu Nrjprjt- would prove that the Glaukos" must he
Sar irapa Nr/pecor Se^natfai 81 SKiyov the Ishekli water, for Kufu-Tchai is dry
(Reiske inserts 7roiei): this difficult sen- throughout summer in the Eumenian
tence seems to describe an artificial valley (though never in its upper
channel conducting the water from its course).
origin and allowing the Nymphs of the s See pp. 102,124.
springs to swim down to the sea, from 4 x«>Pa 'fP« P-I02-
which the Nereids can ascend. That is 5 See p. 131; and cp. pp. 10, 103,
true, see Hist. Geogi: p. 115. 256 f, 259, 281 ff, 293 f. A remarkable
2 Pliny V 108 Est Eumeneia Chtdro corroboration of the theory stated in
flumini adpositaj Glaucus amnis. The those pages has since been published
Glaukos is named on Eumenian coins. by Mr. Grenfell: in B. c. 262 the ' sixth
The term adposita in Pliny suggests of the produce of all the vineyards and
it may have been a stronghold at an earlier or a later period.
Beneath this peak, and occupying part of the site of Eumeneia, is
the modern village Ishekli.
From the base of this peak, at the eastern edge of the city, spring
very copious fountains, which run south into the plain, and cause
enormous marshes, being unable to find a way to the Maeander across
the almost dead level. In the nourishing period of the Koman
empire, the marshes were no doubt drained, and a channel kept in
good order to carry off the water to the Maeander1: the stream was
apparently called Kloudros. The Glaukos was perhaps the Kufu-
Tchai, a tributary of the Maeander which drains the Sandykli-Ova
(the Phrygian Pentapolis) and passes about two miles west of
Eumeneia and two east of Peltai. But it is possible that the names
should be transposed2.
It is improbable that the Attalid colony was the earliest settlement
on the site of Eumeneia. Such a fine situation must have been
occupied from time immemorial: the bountiful fountains would
attract the peasantry of a primitive time. But the pre-Greek settle-
ment was doubtless constituted on the primitive Anatolian village
system 3, and was dependent on the central hieron of the valley.
The property of the god and of the hieron 4 probably extended as far
as the fountains of the Kloudros, for the priests generally had the
finest land, and these fountains were marked out by their natural
character as the gift of the god. Now, as we have observed already
in several cases, the Greek kings used part of the great temple-estates
' to plant colonies which should be personally attached to themselves,
garrisons to hold the country, and centres of Greek civilization'5;
1 At Smyrna the Meles flowed in an that the Cludrus was closer to the city
artificial channel: Aristides says (I p. 377 than the Glaucus. Paton suggests that
Dind.) mAijj 6 iiraHni/jLos Suopvx^v Nv/t- on coins only streams that flow through-
<paw ck m]ya>v (Siappti?) els dakaTrav, out the year are named : this, if correct,
avrats r eirat Xovrpov pvrbv kcu Nrjprjt- would prove that the Glaukos" must he
Sar irapa Nr/pecor Se^natfai 81 SKiyov the Ishekli water, for Kufu-Tchai is dry
(Reiske inserts 7roiei): this difficult sen- throughout summer in the Eumenian
tence seems to describe an artificial valley (though never in its upper
channel conducting the water from its course).
origin and allowing the Nymphs of the s See pp. 102,124.
springs to swim down to the sea, from 4 x«>Pa 'fP« P-I02-
which the Nereids can ascend. That is 5 See p. 131; and cp. pp. 10, 103,
true, see Hist. Geogi: p. 115. 256 f, 259, 281 ff, 293 f. A remarkable
2 Pliny V 108 Est Eumeneia Chtdro corroboration of the theory stated in
flumini adpositaj Glaucus amnis. The those pages has since been published
Glaukos is named on Eumenian coins. by Mr. Grenfell: in B. c. 262 the ' sixth
The term adposita in Pliny suggests of the produce of all the vineyards and