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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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738 XVII. INSCRIPTIONS OF CENTRAL PHRYGIA.

IT-M-TPI ko]1 tfj jirjTpi

MOYMAPKA p.ov MaPKe\-

10 AlN-KAITolC Xivy ko.1 rots

IAIOICMOY lbioisfJ.au

ITOICANE ko]1 roij ave-

YIOICMOY fiois p-ov.

XAIPETEOI xa^pereo!

15 FFAPION iiapiov-

TEC

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It is impossible to be certain as to the origin of the inscr. now at
Afion-Kara-Hissar, unless they contain evidence in their contents.
Stones are brought to a large trading centre like this from all sides,
often from a great distance. A peasant, coming from a village to buy-
in the city, brings with him in an ox-wagon some thing that he can
turn into money, usually produce of his ground 3 but the stone-cutters
are ready to buy a good stone, and he can always make a small sum by
bringing a marble: hence, in cities • like Afion-Kara-Hissar or Ushak,
the traveller should always visit the stone-cutters' yards. But this
remark applies only to the great cities; and it would be mere perversity
to argue that a stone found in a village is carried from a great distance
(p. 583). Stones go to the great centres, not away from them, and the
smaller the village the more nearly certain is it that the stones in it
come from the neighbouring ancient site (for the villages, as a rule, do
not stand actually on the old site, but near it). Exceptions may occur,
and the conditions which may cause exceptions are stated on p. 366 ;
but except where several ancient sites are very close together (as in the
Pentapolis, Ch. XVI App. I), I have found no exception in my own
experience. Only in the great centres (Attaleia, Kutaya, &c.) have
I found travelled stones. In Afion-Kara-Hissar, stones from Dokimion
are certain 2, and from other places (like Kidyessos) probable; but, where
evidence is wanting, I assign them to Prymnessos, two miles distant
(no. 678 f to Akroenos, the Byzantine fortress renamed Kara-Hissar by
the Turks). No. 673 has names common both with 672 (Prymnessos)
and 684 (Dokimion).

Aur. Dorotheos was son of Abirkios and Marcellina. The names of
both parents suggest some connexion with Avircius Marcellus: either
the connexion may be by blood, or admiration and respect may have

1 In 1. 4 the upper oblique stroke of inserted as a correction,

the first [K] is shown in my copy: in 5 2 E.g. Ath. Mitth. 1882 p. 134 and a

TE, in 6 HP, in 7 TW, in 12 NE, in 14 long series of blocks of Dokimian marble

TE, We. In 7 the iota is a small letter with no. 682.
 
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