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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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368 X. EUMENEIA.

doors, we find a family tomb. The dead man is conceived as identi-
fied with the god of the country; his grave is a temple ; and the
epitaph is a dedication (p. 101). The Phiygians carried this belief
and custom wherever they went. A case occurs at Rome, where
a Phrygian slave, named Midas, who was set free by his master
M. Annaeus, erected a little temple, 5 ft. high, 3 ft. broad, and 3 ft.
long, as the grave of a little foundling girl whom he had brought
up (CIL VI 11685).

§ 5. Magistrates and Government. The usual public assemblies,
Boule and Demos, existed at Eumeneia (no. 304). Members of the
senate are buried, no. 204, 210, 219?, 359, 361, 364, 371; the
title probably implying that there was an ordo senatorius of the
Roman type (p. 62 v. 2). Fines were made payable to the senate,
no. 228, 380 l.

Associations of Epheboi or Neoi are not mentioned in the inscrip-
tions. Geraioi in no. 361, 364 perhaps indicates members of the
Gerousia.

The supreme board of magistrates at Eumeneia seems to have con-
sisted in the early empire of three archons, no. 201 ; but in later time
the Strategoi were apparently more important, forming a board with
a City-strategos as presidentz. It seems probable that the difference
is merely in name. The name 'arehon' was more commonly used
in early time, and was understood rather in the general sense of
' ruler' than as a special title; whereas in later time the specific title
' Strategos' became more common (see no. 472 and Ch. XIII § 10).

The common magistrates, agoranomos (p. 629), eirenarch (p. 68),
and grammateus (pp. 66 f), are mentioned in no. 197, 203, and the
paraphylax (p. 68) in no. 197.

At Eumeneia there was a Record Office called xpecocpuXaKLOv (tabu-
larium), and the official in charge of it was ypeuxpvXa^. In it were
preserved public documents of all kinds, both financial and legal,
as well as copies of important private documents, title-deeds, wills,
records of the sale of real property, mortgages, loans, or deeds of gift.
When the copy of any sale or gift was formally made and deposited
in the Record Office, the bargain was said to have taken place Sia ra>v
dpxeicov3; and the building where the archives were kept was called
far more frequently apyeTov than ypeoocpvXdKiov (thus even in Eumeneia

1 If no. 203 belongs to Eumeneia, the s See no. 20, Dareste BCH 1882 p. 241,
president of the senate was styled l3oi- who treats the subject with admirable
\apxos. clearness. The following remarks em-

2 See no. 197, 88, and pp. 67 and 600. body his results.
 
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