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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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562 XII. CHRISTIAN INSCRIPTIONS OF S.JV. PHRYGIA.

Compare lovXeias Evapearas . . . ^j/vyn] . ■ ■ els ovpaviov XP. fiaaiXeiav
\xiTa t&v ayia>v av(\y')iicj)6r] in an inscr. found on the Via Latina, and
ranked by De Rossi p. CXVI as antiquissima (i. e. third century). Our
inscr. cannot be earlier than the second half of fourth cent. Indictions
began to be used for dating documents in Egypt, where they occur as
early as a. d. 329. Beyond Egypt they were not in use till after 350.
De Eossi p. XCVIII knows no inscr. dated by ind. until 423 and 443 ;
and no Eoman inscr. is dated by ind. until 51J and 522.

Dating by indictions begins in Gaul only a.d. 491 as M. Le Blant III
p. 117 says; but it may be expected at an earlier date in Asia. M. Le
Blant Manuel p. 44 points out that the custom of marking on the tomb
the day of death was repugnant to Greek feeling, wdiich never cared to
dwell on such mournful facts1: the day of death is recorded only in the
fully developed Chr. system of burial customs, when it was regarded as
the beginning of a better life : in Gaul it begins to be mentioned as an
almost invariable rule in 431 a.d. The change is nearly contemporaneous
with the ceasing to mention the maker of the tomb; at Rome the maker
is mentioned for the last time in 408, in Gaul in 470. The simple cross
at the beginning of the epitaph was customary in Eome from 450 to 589,
in Gaul from 500 to 680 ; but it began in N. Phrygia at a much earlier
period, probably in the third century.

10. Akmonia, Keramon Agora and Alia.

455-457- (E. 1883, 1888). Susuz-Keui Rev. fit. Gr. 1889 p. 23,
Cumont [64. (A) [Avp. 'A]pi(rreas ['ATro\}\\(j>v(ov rjy6pa\aev apybv tottov \
irapa Mapnov Mad\ov2 Trri(xea>v) if hs\ 1. eret-. Below this was added at
a later time in smaller and ruder letters, KareaKevacrav ra ri\<va avrov
'AXe^av]bpos nal Ka\KiaTpa\[r]os p-qrpl nal Ttarpi \ p.. x-

(B) v-noayopevos Trj | yeiroovvr) t&v -np[(it\T\oTTv\eiT5>v &pp[e]\va biKe\\}-
Aa[ra] | bvo K[ar]a pfi[va ?] | (cat aLyooyb]v 6pv[k.}\tov 3, ibcoKev \ e(j>' (0 kclto. eros
p\o]\biaco(nv Tt\v avpl3[tj\6v pov Avpr)kiav.

(C) [kav be prj edekuxriv] pobiaai Kara eros\, [ecrjrcu avrois irpb[s \ tt}]v
biKaioaityv^v] rod 6eov.

Defaced symbols on side C. In the middle of side B a crown, across

1 M. Le Blant has overlooked a few 2 There seems to have been no letter

Phrygian inscr., in which the day of after 9 at the end of the line,

death is mentioned as being the day on 3 TON in my copy of 1883, TON

which offerings are to be made at the in 1888. No letter was engraved after

grave, e.g. no. 20; but the date of death Y at the end of the preceding line:

in CIG- 3309 may be taken confidently K must have been omitted accident-

as a proof of Chr. origin (19 Apr., 263). ally.
 
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