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Ramsay, William Mitchell
The cities and bishoprics of Phrygia: being an essay of the local history of Phrygia from the earliest time to the Turkish conquest (Band 1,2): West and West-Central Phrygia — Oxford, 1897

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360 X. EUMEN EI A.

the relations between the hieron and the city. Almost the only trace
that remains of such a body of officials is the Architehtpn in no. 259.
At Pergamos the Architect is mentioned in a religious connexion x:
at Delos he was an important official in close relations with the
Neopoioi (perhaps even attached to the board), who seem to have done
nothing without consulting him: he was a salaried official, receiving
at Delos 720 dr. per annums.

The Clirysophoros in no. 203 (if that inscr. belongs to Eumeneia)
is probably also an official (or perhaps a member of a college) con-
nected at once with the hieron and with the city. The precise character
of the Chrysopliovoi is obscure. At Ephesos there was a body of
[gold-wearing priests and victors,' who joined in processions and in
the expense of holding the Hadrianian games, and who passed decrees
in honour of emperors : these evidently wore a sacred dress, which
marked them as engaged in the service of the goddess3. The expres-
sion in no. 203 marks the ' gold-wearer' as engaged in the service of
the state, and seems to designate an official analogous to the Stephane-
phoros, who bore in the grecized city the dress of the god, and repre-
sented in a modernized form the authority of the god within the city.
The college of ' gold-wearers ' at Ephesos was probably analogous in
some respects to the colleges of Hymnodoi found there and elsewhere 4:
the old pre-Greek bodies of persons connected with the great hiera
lasted in various slightly hellenized forms in the Graeco-Asianic cities.
The Neopoioi of Aphrodite at Aphrodisias were also Chrysophoroi
(CIG 2836 b add). It may perhaps be discovered hereafter that the
Stephanephoros was the chief of the college of Chrysophoroi.

§ 3. Early History and Monuments of the Valley. The title
Askaenos carries us back to the remotest period of Phrygian history.
It is found in various parts of Phrygia, and Lydia, and Garia, at
Dioskome no. 506, at Pisidian Antioch5, at Apollonia °, at SardisT, at
Aphrodisias8. In the old Phoenician geographical tradition Genesis
X 3, Ashkenaz, grandson of Japheth, denotes the Phrygian country
and people. We have recognized that, when a divine name has

1 Frankel Inschr. Perg. II 486. Kocrpov 0ao-Tii[£ovTes] rrjs peydXrjs 8eas

2 Homolle BCH 1884 p. 309, see also ['ApTepi]8os np<m6\[ea>]s iepe'is [tea! Up\a-
pp. 325, 437, BCH 1882 pp. 24, 51-54, ve'iKat.

78 &c. 4 See Ch. XIV § 3 (3) and no. 549.

3 Hicks no. 4811. 308 oi xpvo-o<j>opovvTes 6 According to Waddington's certain
rjj dem Upe'is km UpoveiKai (cp. 1. 327, 290, emendation for 'Apuaiov or 'Ao-kcuov in
399, and no. 571, 604, 618, with his Strati, pp. 557, 577.

remarks p. 85): the same body seems c JHS 1883 p. 417, no. 32.

to be meant CIG 2963 c oi rbv [Upov ?] 7 Head p. 553. 8 LW 1601.
 
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