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CHAPTER XIV.
AKMONIA AND THE AKMONIAN DIOCESE.
§ 1. The Akmonian district p. 621. § 2. Foundation and religion of Akmonia
-p. 625. § 3. Population of Akmonia (1) Tribes and Guilds p. 629. (2) Gerousia,
Neoi p. 630. (3) Hymhodoi p. 630. § 4. Moxeanoi p. 631. § 5. Diokleia
p. 632. § 6. Siokharax p. 632. § 7. Aristion p. 633. § 8. Kidyessos p. 634.
§ 9. Orina p. 635.
Appendices: I. Inscriptions p. 637. II. Bishops p. 663. III. Ptolemy V 2, 27
and Straho p. 576 (XII 8, 13) p. 664. IV. Routes p. 666.
§ 1. The Akmonian District, On the E. skirts of Banaz-Ova lies
a mountainous region, separating it from the Pentapolis of Phrygia on
the upper course of the river Glaukos (Sandykli-Ova). This region
was inhabited by a people called Moxeanoi; and on its N. W. edge
was situated the great city Akmonia. The highest point in these
mountains is Ahar-Dagh, a lofty flat table-shaped hill (perhaps over
7000 feet high). Ahar-Dagh is a very prominent object in the
traveller's view from even the western parts of Banaz-Ova, and from
the outskirts of Ushak : the level flat line of its broad summit catches
his eye as it rises over all intermediate hills. It is a marked water-
shed. From its N. slopes runs the highest source of the Tembrogius
or Tembris, which flows into the Sangarios and thereby into the Black
Sea. On its S. slopes rise branches of the Maeander, Ahat-Keui-Su
flowing W. to Banaz-Tchai, and Aram-Tchai S. to the Glaukos1. On
N.W. rises the Hammam-Su, and on E. the Akkar-Su, which runs to
the great lakes of Paroreios Phrygia2.
The Ahar-Dagh, as a central point in the mountain system of
western Anatolia, exercises a strong determining influence on the
1 The latter rises in a great deep S. It is marked (not quite correctly)
nearly circular hole, with very steep from my report as Krater in Kiepert's
sides, apparently about two miles in latest map.
diameter, like a vast cup. I skirted its " The last two spring, not from the
outer rim for a mile or two. There actual hill of Ahar-Dagh, but from
seemed only one break in its lofty side- the sides of the ridge that contains the
walls, where the stream flowed out to Tembris (see next paragraph).
AKMONIA AND THE AKMONIAN DIOCESE.
§ 1. The Akmonian district p. 621. § 2. Foundation and religion of Akmonia
-p. 625. § 3. Population of Akmonia (1) Tribes and Guilds p. 629. (2) Gerousia,
Neoi p. 630. (3) Hymhodoi p. 630. § 4. Moxeanoi p. 631. § 5. Diokleia
p. 632. § 6. Siokharax p. 632. § 7. Aristion p. 633. § 8. Kidyessos p. 634.
§ 9. Orina p. 635.
Appendices: I. Inscriptions p. 637. II. Bishops p. 663. III. Ptolemy V 2, 27
and Straho p. 576 (XII 8, 13) p. 664. IV. Routes p. 666.
§ 1. The Akmonian District, On the E. skirts of Banaz-Ova lies
a mountainous region, separating it from the Pentapolis of Phrygia on
the upper course of the river Glaukos (Sandykli-Ova). This region
was inhabited by a people called Moxeanoi; and on its N. W. edge
was situated the great city Akmonia. The highest point in these
mountains is Ahar-Dagh, a lofty flat table-shaped hill (perhaps over
7000 feet high). Ahar-Dagh is a very prominent object in the
traveller's view from even the western parts of Banaz-Ova, and from
the outskirts of Ushak : the level flat line of its broad summit catches
his eye as it rises over all intermediate hills. It is a marked water-
shed. From its N. slopes runs the highest source of the Tembrogius
or Tembris, which flows into the Sangarios and thereby into the Black
Sea. On its S. slopes rise branches of the Maeander, Ahat-Keui-Su
flowing W. to Banaz-Tchai, and Aram-Tchai S. to the Glaukos1. On
N.W. rises the Hammam-Su, and on E. the Akkar-Su, which runs to
the great lakes of Paroreios Phrygia2.
The Ahar-Dagh, as a central point in the mountain system of
western Anatolia, exercises a strong determining influence on the
1 The latter rises in a great deep S. It is marked (not quite correctly)
nearly circular hole, with very steep from my report as Krater in Kiepert's
sides, apparently about two miles in latest map.
diameter, like a vast cup. I skirted its " The last two spring, not from the
outer rim for a mile or two. There actual hill of Ahar-Dagh, but from
seemed only one break in its lofty side- the sides of the ridge that contains the
walls, where the stream flowed out to Tembris (see next paragraph).