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)

542 XII. CHRISTIAN INSCRIPTIONS OF S.W. PHRYGIA.

of the stone, the other half of which is lost. eV(et) a' rrjs /3a<nA(euis)
,loV(TTiviavov tov evo-ef3[eo-TaTov] 8e<nro(roi>). | epyovMi-^arj\T[rjs] S(ioiK?jcre<os)
cirio-KO-novvTos. A. D. 556. Exactly half of the inscr. is lost. Line 1 con-
tinued [ereXeuofoj rj ayia tov deov e'KKX.rj&la ?], or some similar expression.
Line % probably mentioned the provincial governor or some official of
Motella. See p. 158. (In CB the inscr. was wrongly ascribed to Anasta-
siopolis).

406. (R. 1887). Keuseli (near Motella). Hogarth JHS 1887 p. 396,
Cumont i34 + 'Iy§(iKTi<2z;os) 8' k(czi) px\{ybs) a i£', avearr} to 6v(nao-rr\piov
eirl KvpiaKov tov 9eo<fiikeo-T(dTov) emo-K^-nov). I take t between i£' and
avio-Tr] as a false mark \ Hogarth interprets the obscure and difficult
date as iv8. 8k', /u?j. a, if, 1, ' Seventeenth day of first month of year 10
of indiction 24/ giving a.d. 66 J, which is a very suitable date; and if
I could find any analogy for the numbering of successive indictional
periods, I should follow him. He adds, ' according to Lightfoot Ign. and
Tolyc. ii p. 43, the thysiasterion was rather the sacrarium in which the
altar stood than the altar itself: in this case it was possibly an addition
to a previously existing church.'

407. (R. 1883). In a cemetery a mile or less N. of Haz-Keui, at the

edge of the canon of Banar Tchai (near Motella). [-------av)v viT(al3d6p[<a

•----------8i]a xlP0S EA[wi8tou-------

There is no clue to the length of the gaps.

5. The Lycos Valley.

408. Laodiceia: from the engineers of the Ottoman Railway. On
a stele of similar form to no. 37a, 380. to p.vrjp.eiov | Aiovoiaiov | SeAfev ?}kov2
Kal T\fjs yvva[i]Kbs \ avrov Tafrtas ?] | Kal rrjs dvyaJTpbs rjp,&v \ 'lprivrjs' ev <S |
eVe/sos oi K\qhev8r]cr\eTai: el 8]|e tls &e[pov] KTj8ei/o-[ei, 8<u]|<m r(3 l[ep£ <p[crK<>>]
Sr]z\ /a.

The first two words are engraved apart on the capital. The name
Irene was favoured by the Christians, but the religion must in this case
remain doubtful.

409. M. Clerc in BCH 1887 p. 353 s. [&]icnv M. Avp. Ar]p.r]TpCov
Aao8iK«os, <pv\rjs 'AOrjvatbos, iv fj KrfievOr\o-ovTai ovtos kcl\ 01 yovtls
M. Avp. ktX.

1 Perhaps it is a punctuation mark. 8 M. Clerc's copy seems to make every

2 CEAI KOY in the copy, which may letter of Qea-iv certain except 9. He
be right. leaves a blank in transcribing.