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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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448 XI. APAMEIA.

broad ridge protrudes north from the southern chain, and forces the
Maeander away towards NW. A few miles down, the Maeander enters
a narrow pass, formed by this protruding ridge W. and Djebel-Sultan
E., after traversing which it enters the Siblian country (p. 222).

The beautiful peak Ai-Doghmush, ' the Rising Moon,' 5,790 ft., is
thus the dominating factor in the geography of the district, visible
from a great distance in many directions 1, and a centre from which
radiate these two mountain chains and also that far loftier chain
which runs to E., bounding the Apollonian valley on the south (being
one of the great parallel ridges of Tauros). The name Ai-Doghmush
describes well the appearance of this peak, as the traveller sees it
rising above an intervening ridge: the name is one of the very rare
examples of the imaginative interpretation of nature in Turkish, and
may probably be a translation of an older name2.

Mons Aulocrenus is given as the ancient name of Djebel-Sultan by
Pliny, whose Mons Signia must be a single peak in the chain, close to
Apameia. We should naturally conjecture that Signia was the acro-
polis-hill, but Strabo p. 577 says that that hill was called Kelainai,
and the Sibylline oracles agree with him (p. 454). Signia, then, is
probably Ai-Doghmush.

The Apamean country is described as very large by Dio Chrysostom
and Strabo3, containing subject towns as well as villages. The
boundary on the side of Apollonia is marked by inscr. 352. On the
side of Stektorion., the limit was in the rising ground, north of Bei-
Keui and Dornbai. On the side of Siblia it was probably the narrows
of the Maeander, on the side of Colossai between Graos-Gala and
Kharax, and on the side of Keretapa the rising ground west of the
lake of Yarishli4. Apamean territory touched the Askanian lake,
and probably included the entire lake of Anava. On the frontier
towards SE. see inscr. 35a.

Among the towns or large villages were Kharax p. 229, Anava
p. 230, Lampe p. 227, Takina p. 295, Aurokra, Samsado-Kome.

1 I have taken readings to it from s See the quotations pp.428, 297.

a point several hours west of Ushak, and 4 Strab. p. 631 says that Milyas ex-

from the south-west part of the Kylla- tended ^XP1 SayaXao-o-ov KaiTrjs'Kiray.ea>v

nian region. On E. a peak which I took x&Pas' this proves that the territory

for it was visible from some parts of the stretching from the S. end of lake

Apollonian valley: everywhere it seems Askania (about the village Deuer, which

' the Rising Moon.' Was Sagalassian) to Keretapa (which was

2 A Seljuk general named Ai-Dogh- an independent city) must have been
mush is mentioned by M. Huart Inscr. Apamean, see p. 297 and no. 165-167.
Arabes en As. Mm. p. 25.
 
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