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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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384 X. EUMEN EI A.

225. (R. 1887). Aidan. M. Paris BCH 1884 p. 246'. Ammia to
her husband Damas and children Euandros and Stratoneike, koX et ti-
v[i avJTTj (uxr[a a)ov)(p>pri<r<j). Fine to Fiscus. See no. 380.

226. (R. 1887). CKx 3889. Ishekli. 'Ave'iKrjTos 'lovXiavov hnolqcrev to
\xvr\fxeiov TeprCq Aovkiov tov Taiov ripcolbi kcu eaurw f<3i». Any dead
person, even a slave or freedman (see Deneken Ileros in Roseher's
Lexicon), may be a rjpoos or f]pa>ts ; but the use of the title in an epitaph
probably implies the institution of some cultus. Here the husband
intends to institute such a cult to his deceased wife: in a Roman epitaph
a father makes the grave for his son Faustus ijpati a-Tetpavrjcjiopio, where
he evidently regarded the son as identified with the crowned god, and
probablj' he placed over the grave a statue or statuette of the son
represented as Stephanepboros 2. Typical examples of the foundation of
a cultus to a dead person as hero may be found in CIG 2448 (the
testament of Epikteta, probably in Thera), and in Rev. fit. Or. 1889
pp. 19 ff (to the daughter of Antipater, son of Gaius, at Amorion); but
all those bequests given for the performance of ceremonies at the grave
are devices to secure the permanence of a heroic cultus (see pp. ioo,
367 f). There are cases, especially at Cyzicos and Aphrodisias, in which
the title ijpcos is applied to a magistrate. M. Waddington considers that
they had died in office, LW 1639, and explains the surprising mortality
of magistrates by the supposition that the title was often for life. This,
however, does not suit the facts. M. Th. Reinach, on the other hand,
simply remarks that at Cyzicos the title was often given to living men and
women 3, without suggesting any explanation. Perhaps the meaning is
that persons were sometimes appointed after their death : Canon Hicks
considers that a tutelary god or a hero was often appointed to an
eponymous office, e. g. Stephanepboros at Iasos and Priene4. Heroes
may have been appointed at Aphrodisias in the same way. This
seems to be one of the many ingenious fashions in which marks and
titles of honour were invented for the dead and made a matter of sale in

1 M. Paris has the fine rightly 8iji>. (p graved on a tombstone and clear]}'refers
in his copy, but wrongly restores 8i]v. to a dead man: Alh. Mitth. VII 254 is
fi(f>. on the basis of a statue, but the statue

2 Kaibel 1343 : compare the title as may commemorate a dead man.
applied to a magistrate, who was oh- 4 Hicks in JHS 1887 p. 59 : Th. Rei-
ginally the priest of the crowned god nach in Rev. Et. Gr. 1893 p. 156 con-
(e. g. 'An-dXXujj/ trTeQavTj-pap s at Iasos) siders the suggestion as not deserving
p. 56. even of refutation. See also Hicks

3 BCH 1890 p. 537. His examples Iiiscr. Br. M. Ill pp. 19, 3], 32.
are not all good: BCH XII 193 is en-
 
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