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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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4. THE HORSE-ROAD TO THE EAST. 581

from the bank of the Maeander opposite Atuochorion, the road passes
Bekirli, near which we have supposed the central village of the
Hyrgalean people to be (p. 128)1.

At Tralla-Aetos the road would fork, one branch going on direct to
the Myso-Makedones and to Epkesos, the other going to the right
to join the road from Tripolis to Hierapolis. The fact that the road
Philadelpheia-Tripolis coincided in part with the road Philadelpheia-
Tralla, would facilitate and almost justify the rendering of the two
roads on the Table.

These combinations seem so satisfactory and involve so little change
in the Table, while using only the identifications which we had already
arrived at from other reasons, that I need not discuss the other details
in which I have modified M. Radet's scheme of the road. He does
not accept a single number from the Table, but requires them all to
be altered; and on independent grounds his localization of Oikokome
or Vicus was found unsatisfactory in § 2.

§ 5. Sebaste occupies a beautiful situation in the fertile ground
under Burgas-Dagh. The two villages Sivasli and Seljiikler corre-
spond to it, and are both full of its remains2. Sivasli retains the old
name in a form adapted to give a more Turkish sound. Either on the
site of Sebaste, or by the beautiful fountains of Bunar-Bashi3, about
\\ miles S., there must undoubtedly have been a settlement from
the earliest time, which was doubtless organized as a village of the
old Anatolian type. Bunar-Bashi especially unites every qualifica-
tion for attracting a primitive population. But the city was the
foundation of the emperor Augustus. That is evident both from the
name and the coins bearing his name and effigyi, and also from

1 The Savenn. Anonym. Cosmographia, containing finely built sepulchral cham-
which goes back to an earlier and com- bers close to Seljiikler, which was built
pleter form of the Table than we pos- on the skirts of the Chr. city by the
sess, gives some help in such questions, Mohammedan settlers, p. 31. See
in spite of its frightful corruption in M. Paris BCH 1883 p. 449.

the fomi of names, and its extraordinary 3 The Senaros, mentioned on coins

irregularity in their arrangement. It of the city, may be these springs;

mentions Latrileon, which (if we take but more probably it is the great

T as an error for |~) may represent river of the Sebastene country, Banaz-

Hirgaleon (Parthey p. 106, 7) : further Tchai.

Ateus (Parthey p. 111, 9) may be the 4 The coins of Sebaste were long con-
first element of Atuo-chorion. fused with those of other cities named

2 It is less than 1^ miles from the Sebaste. Magistrates P/ionysios and
centre of Sivasli to the centre of Sel- Antisthenes are mentioned on coins of
jiikler. Ruins of Sebaste are scattered Augustus published by Waddington Voy.
over the intervening space, with tumuli Num. and Imhoof MG.
 
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