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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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402 XI. APAMEIA.

marked to be distinguishable as separate springs. The temperature of
the water on the evening of May 26, 1891 was 68° F, being 6° above
that of the atmosphere. The temperature perhaps varies ; for in 1890
it felt lukewarm, while in 1891 rain had been falling heavily on a
colder day, and the water felt cold. It flows away in a small channel
without any rush or noise through the level ground to join the Maeander.

The name is sufficient proof that this fountain is the Therma men-
tioned as 0£P on a coin of Apameia. The Thermaia Plateia of inscr.
296, 297, and 299, must have been a street that ran through the city
towards the springs, which, as I believe, were in the Proasteion close
outside the fortified walls.

Prof. G. Hirschfeld came to the conclusion that the Lidja were
the old Marsyas ; and I confess that for many years I accepted without
criticism his results about Apamean topography, and left the city out
of my sphere of thought and work. But in 1887 Hogarth, who was
travelling with me, made a hurried run from Eumeneia to see the site
of Apameia (in which he was interested as bearing on his researches
about Alexander the Great), and rejoined me the following day beside
Sandukli \ I gave him an outline of the topography as settled by
Hirschfeld in order that he might utilize his short time to the best
advantage. But when, after seeing the other sources, his guide led
him to the Lidja, his ' first sensation on looking at this prosaic fount
was one of blank surprise : could this melancholy stream, bubbling
tamely out of a flat tract at the foot of a naked slope, and slinking
away more like a drain than a river, be the storied Marsyas, " Phrygiae
liquidissimus amnis," the favourite haunt of nymphs, the seat of one
of the most famous of myths 1 Remembering the constant apposite-
ness of Greek legend, and its close connexion with natural beauty
or natural grandeur, I had expected to find a notable stream, issuing
amid beautiful or striking surroundings.'

It was a correct instinct led Hogarth to reject unhesitatingly the
idea that this poor stream was the Marsyas, in spite of the serious
difficulty which he found in identifying the Maeander ; and he was
demonstrated to be right when it was observed that Q£P/xa was the
name on the coin mentioning the four Apamean rivers 2.

1 Those who have ridden both roads exploration prevented Hogarth from

in summer can appreciate the activity acquiring a complete idea of all the

which enabled him and our companion localities and streams; and his paper

H. A. Brown (who since then was killed in JHS, his first study in Asia Minor,

with Major Wilson's party in Mashona- bears traces of the incompleteness of

land) to interpolate an exploration of his survey in the gaps it leaves.
Apameia between the two journeys. 2 Hogarth says 'Ramsay, in drawing

At the same time the hurry of the my attention to the famous coin of
 
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