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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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APPENDIX I.

INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PENTAPOLIS.

It is impossible to assign with certainty the place of origin of the
inscr. found in the different villages in Sandykli-Ova. Communication
is so easy, and stones for building mosques and fountains are carried so
regularly1, that identification of origin is difficult, and the classification
here adopted is only tentative. Our rules are (i) each stone is classed to
the site from which transport is shortest and easiest, unless there is
distinct evidence either in the inscr. or from the statements of natives
that it has been brought from a more distant site. (3) Stones used in
a turbe, or mosque, or fountain are most likely to be carried: for the
skilled workmen required for such construction are hired (often from
a considerable distance) by the villagers, and they commonly bring with
them in their carte some stones : on the other hand, stones standing free2
are much less likely to be carried from a distance. (3) Stones standing
free on an ancient site must be assigned to it: this criterion determines
the origin of no. 634, 638. (4) The more modern the building, the
more likely is a stone in it to have been carried from a distance.
(5) Uncut stones used as gravestones have usually been transplanted, but
only from a neighbouring situation within a radius of 2 or 3 miles : cut
gravestones have come from a mason's yard in a city, and their
original provenance is quite uncertain.

These rules are not of any binding force ; and future discoveries may
show that the classification founded on them in the following pages
requires modification.

1. HlEROPOLIS.

630. (R. 1883). Cemetery near Kuyujak. (1) 'Aya^ij T^x?7- t<S
alwvito [fj)i/.&v avroKparopi M. Avp. [Upofiw (name erased and (2) AlokKt]-

1 See pp. 365, 583. they were formerly part of a building

2 Unless there is reason to think that which has now crumbled into ruin.
 
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