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)

App. christian inscriptions.

56!

453. Seljiikler. BCH 1893, p. 269. 'Opcriviavov ml <t>\a>pevrCas Ovydrqp
tHA[i]oTroA.is1 and Kupras ^2Taj3\r](nav&v(?) ave(JTr\aav(\) (rrOiXrjv nj kavrov^l)
rd<j)(i>- eoriv he er&v beta ?£• el be ti<s Kanovpyijaai, wj ?/ 6vyarr]p tj]V pi]Tepa
ovk. e\6praa-ev ovre 17 pi]Tr\{p\ tijv dvyarepa, ovrcos pr] \opraa6fj rtj etc . . .

The editors express some doubt of the text. Except the late date,
which can hardly be earlier than the fourth century, there is nothing to
suggest the Chr. religion. I thought of a cohort of Stablesianoi; but
M. Radet treats this inscr. in Rev. des Univ. dm Midi 1896 p. 290 and
accepts the opinion expressed by M. Beaudouin that Koopras is the name
of a place. The editors mention that the engraving is irregular and
rude ; and I trust they will not think it wrong1, if I express the hope
that the inscr. may be re-examined to see whether BflPZ AC may be read
(K for B and T for Z are easy mistakes in a difficult text, as bitter
experience has shown me): Borza would then be the same place which is
called Borzos in no. 489t

454. (R. 1883). Khirka (Dioskome). + ave\r\p^dy] to -neUov 'Avri-
■narpos + lvh{j.KTiSivi) 1 nal pipl & iC,' r\p.{erepov) KvpUov) +.

+ANEAHM

4>eHTonEi

AIONANT

TTATPCXI +

INdMKAl
MHNI6IZ"

The western custom of stating the day of death without stating the year
is hardly found in the East, as M. Cumont remarks.

vol. 1. PT. 11.

1 HATOI in the copy.
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