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)

434 XI. APAMEIA.

during the second century in Asia Minor, whose subjects show general
uniformity of style and treatment.

The honorary inscriptions of the Mithridates family seem to have
been engraved on the epistyle blocks of a Stoa, no. 296. This need
not be identified with the Painted Stoa, for there were doubtless
several stoai in Apameia, as in Greek cities generally.

(4) Sepulchral Monuments. A considerable number of the
epitaphs at Apameia are engraved on Altars ((3co/xol), and belonged
to monuments of the same general type as those at Eumeneia (p. 367).
But another style was more fashionable. Many of the most elaborate
epitaphs are engraved, not on a bomos, but on a large slab of stone,
which, at a little distance, looks like the ordinary sarcophagus-cover:
in the surface of the stone is a sunken panel, in which the inscription
is engraved lengthwise x: there is often some simple incised ornament
right and left of the panel. Each slab seems to have formed the side-
wall of a small heroon, in the shape probably of a tiny temple or large
sarcophagus (each side of which was a single slab of stone). The
centurion's epitaph, no. 329, was engraved on two blocks, which
formed part of the side-wall of a larger heroon.

§ 21. National and Imperial Cultus. About the religion of
Kelainai we have little information. A god was worshipped in
Kelainai, who continued in the later Apameia to be revered as Z€YC
K£A6NeYC and AIONYCOC K€AAIN€YC 2. It is highly probable that
his temple was on the acropolis; and on alliance coins with Ephesos,
Apameia is represented by Zeus Nikephoros seated. The revival of
the name Kelainai, which apparently was commonly employed in the
second century (p. 430), was probably the reason why these epithets
were placed on the coins. An eponymous hero Kelainos is mentioned
on coins 3; according to Strabo, Kelaino the Danaid was his mother
and Poseidon his father4; and by this fiction Kelainai-Apameia
gained a mythological justification of its rank as a Greek city (p. 430).
Kelainos was an eponymous fiction of a common type, like Xanthos
at Xanthos in Lycia, Temenos at Temenothyrai, Alabandos at Ala-

1 This panel looks at a distance like 3 Inihoof GM p. 205, and Head.

the hollow side of an inverted sarco- 4 So Strabo p. 579. Pausanias X 6, 3

phagus-lid. makes Kelaino, daughter of Hyamos

2 Imhoof GM p. 205, Lobbecke Zft. [a Phrygo-Carian name], mother of
/. Num. XV p. 49. I assume that the Delphos by Apollo. Another Kelaino
two names represent different aspects of was one of the Pleiads, daughters of
the same Phrygian deity, see pp. 356 f. Atlas.