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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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582 XIII. THE BANAZ-OVA.

no. 495, which seems to be a metrical chronicle relating the early
history and mythology of the city. From it we learn that Augustus
transplanted to the new foundation the people of the towns in the
neighbourhood ; and this fact proves that the emperor's action was
not simply the renaming of an existing city, but the formation of
a new city \

Men is the most characteristic type on coins of Sebaste; but the
more hellenized coins represent the deity of the city as Zeus, a mere
grecized form of the same Phrygian deity. The title Askaenos has
not as yet been found in Sebaste ; but, as it was in use in the Sebas-
tene village of Dioskome and in Eumeneia, it may be assumed in
Sebaste also2. The native cultus of the city was evidently the same
as at these neighbouring cities, so far as the scanty traces permit
a judgement.

The hellenized forms of the god and goddess, Apollo and Artemis,
occur in inscr. 480.

The foundation of the Gerousia in A.D. 99 by a group of persons,
men and women, varying widely in age and apparently containing
all the members of one leading family in Sebaste, is mentioned in
inscr. 475.

From inscr. 472 we gather that the supreme board of magistrates
was styled indifferently Strategoi and Archontes (see p. 368).

In this district we meet a new class of sepulchral monument, a slab of
marble or other stone carved to imitate a doorway. The doorposts, the
two valvae, the lintel, are all indicated ; one or two knockers are usually
carved on the door; and symbols referring to the ordinary life of the
deceased person are often represented on the panels, a basket, a strigil,
a mirror, or something of the kind. The door is often surmounted by
a pediment, triangular, or semicircular, which is sometimes plain,
sometimes sculptured ; and in the upper Tembris valley, e. g. the
sculptural decoration of the pediment is commonly the ancient Phry-
gian heraldic device—a pair of lions regarding each other. The
inscription is placed sometimes on the upper rim of the pediment,
sometimes on the lower rim, occasionally on the actual door in viola-
tion of the symmetry and beauty of the whole. See the illustrations
Ch. XIV § 2, no. 620, 635.

Tombstones of the door-type are very common in northern, central,
and eastern Phrygia; but they are rare in the most completely
hellenized cities of the Lycos valley or in Eumeneia or Apameia.
§6. The Koma.i of Sebaste. The process of synoikismos had not

See § 15. 2 See no. 88, 197, 496.
 
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