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686 XVI. THE PENTAPOLIS OF PHRYGIA.
At Otrous also the retreating figure is a warrior; his raised right hand
holds no weapon, but in his lowered left he grasps a spear. The
difference points to peaceful emigration from a foreign land to Otrous
and expulsion from across sea of a people who settled at Stektorion.
At Brouzos the god seems to be represented as the guardian and leader
of immigrant warriors from across the sea ; and this would suit excel-
lently the theory that the city was settled by a military colony of
Macedonians.
The coinage of Brouzos formed a model for that of Hieropolis, which
begins later: one type at Hieropolis is, as M. Waddington told me,
identical with one of Brouzos in his collectionx. Another Hieropolitan
type, the nude Zeus Aetophoros2 hurling a thunderbolt, is modelled
on the type of Poseidon hurling a trident at Brouzos. But for the
study of such relations we must await the publication of M. Imhoof-
Blumer's Corpus of Greek coins.
A remarkable type is common to Brouzos and to Akmonia. It repre-
sents Zeus sitting aloft with sceptre in his left hand, and patera in
his right; while serpent-legged giants writhe beneath him apparently
supporting his throne. The giants grasp with one hand at Akmonia
their own serpent-tails, as if completely subdued, at Brouzos missile
stones, as if still resisting3. These types belong to the period 222-238 ;
and they probably originate in two works of art. which were dedicated
in those cities about that time. At Akmonia the 'monument was
perhaps a relief on marble, of which a fragment has been preserved
by Hamilton, and is represented on p. 626 after his drawing.
On coins of Brouzos TT • AIK • POYCJ5INOC (wrongly read in Mionnet
no. 306) c. a.d. 200 is often mentioned on coins, generally by cognomen
only.
§ 5. Otrous. On the wide Sandykli-Ova I looked confidently for
an ancient site on the higher E. side. Numerous villages are dotted
along the skirts of the hills ; and the names Ekin-Hissar and Karadja-
Euren, especially, seemed to point to an old city. But I have examined
personally almost every village on that side of the valley 4 ; and could
neither see nor learn anything to justify the belief that an ancient city
1 JHS 1887 p. 478. pp. 155 *")•
2 This type may serve as a proof that i The upper valley where Karghyn,
the Zeus Bronton of N. Phrygia was Bektash, and other villages lie, was
worshipped also in the Pentapolis. examined by Sterrett in 1883; and
3 Reproduced on PI. II 3, 4. See again in 1891 I went over all the vil-
Imhoof in Beitr. z. griech. Miinzk. in lages except Dut-Agatch ; but we found
Zft. f. Num. XIII and Waddington no ancient work that might not safely
Voy. Num. pp. 7 f [Rev. Numism. 1851 be reckoned as carried.
At Otrous also the retreating figure is a warrior; his raised right hand
holds no weapon, but in his lowered left he grasps a spear. The
difference points to peaceful emigration from a foreign land to Otrous
and expulsion from across sea of a people who settled at Stektorion.
At Brouzos the god seems to be represented as the guardian and leader
of immigrant warriors from across the sea ; and this would suit excel-
lently the theory that the city was settled by a military colony of
Macedonians.
The coinage of Brouzos formed a model for that of Hieropolis, which
begins later: one type at Hieropolis is, as M. Waddington told me,
identical with one of Brouzos in his collectionx. Another Hieropolitan
type, the nude Zeus Aetophoros2 hurling a thunderbolt, is modelled
on the type of Poseidon hurling a trident at Brouzos. But for the
study of such relations we must await the publication of M. Imhoof-
Blumer's Corpus of Greek coins.
A remarkable type is common to Brouzos and to Akmonia. It repre-
sents Zeus sitting aloft with sceptre in his left hand, and patera in
his right; while serpent-legged giants writhe beneath him apparently
supporting his throne. The giants grasp with one hand at Akmonia
their own serpent-tails, as if completely subdued, at Brouzos missile
stones, as if still resisting3. These types belong to the period 222-238 ;
and they probably originate in two works of art. which were dedicated
in those cities about that time. At Akmonia the 'monument was
perhaps a relief on marble, of which a fragment has been preserved
by Hamilton, and is represented on p. 626 after his drawing.
On coins of Brouzos TT • AIK • POYCJ5INOC (wrongly read in Mionnet
no. 306) c. a.d. 200 is often mentioned on coins, generally by cognomen
only.
§ 5. Otrous. On the wide Sandykli-Ova I looked confidently for
an ancient site on the higher E. side. Numerous villages are dotted
along the skirts of the hills ; and the names Ekin-Hissar and Karadja-
Euren, especially, seemed to point to an old city. But I have examined
personally almost every village on that side of the valley 4 ; and could
neither see nor learn anything to justify the belief that an ancient city
1 JHS 1887 p. 478. pp. 155 *")•
2 This type may serve as a proof that i The upper valley where Karghyn,
the Zeus Bronton of N. Phrygia was Bektash, and other villages lie, was
worshipped also in the Pentapolis. examined by Sterrett in 1883; and
3 Reproduced on PI. II 3, 4. See again in 1891 I went over all the vil-
Imhoof in Beitr. z. griech. Miinzk. in lages except Dut-Agatch ; but we found
Zft. f. Num. XIII and Waddington no ancient work that might not safely
Voy. Num. pp. 7 f [Rev. Numism. 1851 be reckoned as carried.