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5. OTROUS. 689
Apameia, until the generosity of Mithridatianus enabled it to form
a fund and get rid of them (no. 297), are an example of the securities
and devices used by the Emperors to keep the cities up to their duties.
Coins en • NITPeiNOY • OTPOHNnN • APX • were struck under
Geta, probably the same time with those of Alexander. The earliest
known coin is of Commodus, £171 • ePMHAOC^IAOY • APX • (Wad-
dington).
§ 6. Stektokion is fixed by inscr. 640, found in the Turbe of
Mentesh-Baba in the village which is named after him. The exact
site is marked by a large mound in the plain nearly two miles NE.
from Mentesh, and one mile WSW. from Ille-Mesjid. The mound
is fortified by ruined walls of the Greek period. There is cut in
it a small theatre or odeon, which is now partly filled up by soil.
Without excavation nothing further can be determined about it; but
a small expenditure on this deserted mound might give good results.
The territory of Stektorion must have included the country between
Hieropolis on N. and Aurokra on S. We found not a trace of ancient
life in the few intervening villages of these almost deserted uplands,
long undulating grassy hills and slopes, between the mountains of the
Djebel-Sultan ridge springing up rather sharply W. and the bald hills
of Gumalar-Dagh rising gently E. This reason, apart from any other,
would make it impossible for me to accept the opinion of M. Radet
that the town of the Lykaones was situated at Kizil-Euren, overhung
by a steep hill W., about 6 miles SSE. from Mentesh on the road to
Aurokra and Dineir (see § 8).
In the territory of Stektorion an interesting monument was shown.
This was the ' conspicuous ' tomb of Mygdon1, whose name was often
applied to the whole Phrygian people by the poets, and whose son
Koroibos had fought on the side of Priam at the siege of Troy and
was painted by Polygnotos on the Lesche at Delphi. This monument
should be discoverable, for the words ' a conspicuous sign' seem to
describe a large sepulchral tumulus. Now in the valley there is just
one group of ' conspicuous signs,' three in number: they stand on
a low ridge of hills north of Emir-Hissar2, which project from W.
into the valley ; and they are so conspicuous as one stands on the
ancient site, that, looking from the acropolis, I pointed to the largest,
and said ' there is the tomb of Mygdon, and this must therefore be
Stektorion.' The discovery of inscr. 640 in 1891 shattered the second
part of this statement; and after finding that inscr. we proceeded to
1 tovtov re SiUvvTai a-rj/xn (irupaves iv opois <bpvyav 'S.TtKTop-qvOiv Pausanias X 27, I.
2 See § 7.
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Apameia, until the generosity of Mithridatianus enabled it to form
a fund and get rid of them (no. 297), are an example of the securities
and devices used by the Emperors to keep the cities up to their duties.
Coins en • NITPeiNOY • OTPOHNnN • APX • were struck under
Geta, probably the same time with those of Alexander. The earliest
known coin is of Commodus, £171 • ePMHAOC^IAOY • APX • (Wad-
dington).
§ 6. Stektokion is fixed by inscr. 640, found in the Turbe of
Mentesh-Baba in the village which is named after him. The exact
site is marked by a large mound in the plain nearly two miles NE.
from Mentesh, and one mile WSW. from Ille-Mesjid. The mound
is fortified by ruined walls of the Greek period. There is cut in
it a small theatre or odeon, which is now partly filled up by soil.
Without excavation nothing further can be determined about it; but
a small expenditure on this deserted mound might give good results.
The territory of Stektorion must have included the country between
Hieropolis on N. and Aurokra on S. We found not a trace of ancient
life in the few intervening villages of these almost deserted uplands,
long undulating grassy hills and slopes, between the mountains of the
Djebel-Sultan ridge springing up rather sharply W. and the bald hills
of Gumalar-Dagh rising gently E. This reason, apart from any other,
would make it impossible for me to accept the opinion of M. Radet
that the town of the Lykaones was situated at Kizil-Euren, overhung
by a steep hill W., about 6 miles SSE. from Mentesh on the road to
Aurokra and Dineir (see § 8).
In the territory of Stektorion an interesting monument was shown.
This was the ' conspicuous ' tomb of Mygdon1, whose name was often
applied to the whole Phrygian people by the poets, and whose son
Koroibos had fought on the side of Priam at the siege of Troy and
was painted by Polygnotos on the Lesche at Delphi. This monument
should be discoverable, for the words ' a conspicuous sign' seem to
describe a large sepulchral tumulus. Now in the valley there is just
one group of ' conspicuous signs,' three in number: they stand on
a low ridge of hills north of Emir-Hissar2, which project from W.
into the valley ; and they are so conspicuous as one stands on the
ancient site, that, looking from the acropolis, I pointed to the largest,
and said ' there is the tomb of Mygdon, and this must therefore be
Stektorion.' The discovery of inscr. 640 in 1891 shattered the second
part of this statement; and after finding that inscr. we proceeded to
1 tovtov re SiUvvTai a-rj/xn (irupaves iv opois <bpvyav 'S.TtKTop-qvOiv Pausanias X 27, I.
2 See § 7.
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