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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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APPENDIX I.

INSOBIPTIONS OF THE EUMENIAN DISTRICT.

Among the following inscr. some certainly may belong to Peltai, Siblia,
and Attanassos; but precise assignation is impossible (see note preliminary
in App. I to Ch. XV); and it would have been almost better to place
here the whole of the inscr. under no. 75-82 and 84-88.

195. (R- 1887). Kotchak. Ylpijxiyivrjs 'AttoWmvi TipoirvXaCtp evx/iv.
A bipennis is appended under this votive inscription as the symbol of the
power of the god (see pp. 149, 263, and nos. 42, 103), who, therefore, is
not the true Greek Apollo, but the Phrygian deity, Men-Sozon-Sabazios
(who is often identified with the Greek Apollo). He is represented on
Eumenian coins as the horseman god carrying a bipennis over his left
shoulder (Mionnet 57I).> ^ne tyPe which is often described incorrectly as
' an Amazon/

The god ' in front of the gates' must be a native Phrygian deity, who
had his own seat in the valley before Eumeneia was built, and was rever-
enced by the inhabitants of that city alongside of, and even before, the
deities proper to the new foundation, whose temples were within the city.
This native god of the valley had certainly his seat at the Meron of Atta-
nassos (pp. 242, 356), where from time immemorial he had guided his
Phrygian worshippers, advised them as a prophet, and cured them from
diseases.

196. (R. 1887). Ishekli. Ti(/3e'pioi>) KXavbiov Tpvcpavos vlov, Kvpivq,
'AQiivoboTov [<J>]t\[a]A.ij0jj, Upea I\poirvK[aiov 'Att6}\\covos. Ti. Claudius
Athenodotus Philalethes, a Roman citizen, must have been a man of
standing in the city; and the last name suggests that he belonged to
the line of physicians of the famous medical school connected with the
Meron of Men Karon in the time of Augustus (see p. 52), viz. Zeuxis
Philalethes (mentioned on coins of Laodiceia), succeeded by Alexander
Philalethes, whose pupil was Demosthenes Philalethes. Athenodotos
Philalethes was doubtless trained in the same school; he may have
 
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