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)

648 XIV. AKMONIA AND THE AKMONIAN DIOCESE.

They are put together in Amer. Journ. Arch. I p. 146. The most impor-
tant is (1) on a piece of the entablature of the heroon, parts of two lines
whose length must have been very great: [binavbpov Ztt\ tS>v Kk-qpovojxiK&v
hiKacrTr\pi(£>v, Ta.jj.Lav bt]p.ov kt\.\, and [ot yovVtis avrov to r^pwov KarecrKtva-
aav1. This shows the character of the monument: it was a heroon,
probably in the form of a small temple, with a long inscription in two
lines running round the entablature, and with other inscriptions in the
walls. (2) is probably complementary of (1) if we can assume that the
letters of the upper line in it are a little larger than those of the lower
line (though Le Bas does not notice the difference): assuming this we
may restore [. . . . Al]fJ.ik(q Ko[pvovrov, beKavbpov] ktX. as in (2)], and
[Qr\a]avTa'1 [re Koap.ia>s Kal iv iravrl Kaipai brnxoxpe\&s, ol ycwleTs avrov ktA.
as in (2). (5) is part of an inscription in three or more lines; and it
contains [brip.ov 'Pw[j.aLa>]v ena[pxiias Kinrpov] and [—Woi Kopvov[rov] 3 with
some other badly copied letters.

With these six fragments, we must probably take 558 (R. 1881) CIG
3858 h to Koivbv TaXaTav*. It is remarkable that the Koinon of the
province Galatia should place a decree in Akmonia; but this is explained
by the fact that the family of Servenius Cornutus was connected with
Ancyra in Galatia as well as with Akmonia. An Ancyran inscription
has \rr\v e]/c /3a<riAeW [Ee)povriviav Ko[pvov]rav KopvrjKlav Ka\ir[op]v[ia]v
Ova\e[pi]av [2}(K[o]vvbav KorCav UpoKi\Kav .... pKiav AovKOvWav5.
As Mordtmann rightly remarks, the occurrence of this very rare name
Servenius at Akmonia and Ancyra shows that the same family was
connected with both cities; and he therefore infers that Servenia Cornuta
and Servenius Capito of Akmonia were relatives of Servenia Cornuta at
Ancyra. Thus it becomes explicable that the Koinon of Galatia honoured
L. Servenius Cornutus in a decree which was engraved on his splendid
monument in Akmonia, in the same way as it honoured two Galatian
ladies at Ephesos, Br. Hits. no. 558.

In no. 550, 551, Servenia Cornouta and Julia Severa seem to be placed
in some sort of parallel with each other, and we find other evidence of
a close connexion between the two families.

Servenia Cornuta of Ancyra was descended from kings, and therefore
her family must have claimed regal descent. Mordtmann understands,
following Franz and Waddington, that she was sprung from the old

1 These restorations differ much from 3 Probably miscopied.
Waddington's. 4 It is the beginning of an inscription.

2 This seems preferable to crr/jarij-yjij- 5 A. D. Mordtmann Monumenta Ancy-
a-avra re on account of (2); the Tf seems rana p. 18, better Domaszewski AEMii.
assured by the copy, though the letters 1885 p. 129. Compare p. 651 n., 674 n.
are imperfect.