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)

740 XVII. INSCRIPTIONS OF CENTRAL PHRYGIA.

inser. lias the ordinary third-century character. The date then is perhaps

A-D- 33°-35°-

M. Duchesne dates several inscriptions at Seleuceia-Isauriae with the
monogram ■£ about a.d. 350 1. That they belong to the fourth century
is practically certain; some may probably be as early as the time of
Constantine.

674. (R. 1881). Afion-Kara-Hissar. CIG 8935, LW 17.11, Cumont
188. [Aov]aaa0e, Kadapol yevecrdai, [a<p]iAerai ras T!OVT]pi\as a\nb tS>v ^rv\&v
vpS>v, Trava-aaOai cmb tu>v Trovr)pei\{£>v vp]a>v, paOerai KaXov ttols'lv, eyCv1"^"
aare Kp'creiv, pv\cracrde a\biKovp.evov, Kpivare 6p(pavu> Kal SiKaico<7a[re | yjipav'\
Kal hevre Kal biekey\9copev, Xiyei [Kvp\ios} kcu ? 2 edv) cocriv vp&v ai apaprial
a>s <poiviKov[v], u>$ xL[°va I XtVK)ava>' (dv be cos kokklvov 3, cos epiov XevKavS*.

This quotation from Isaiah I 16-18 evidently formed part of the
epigraphic adornment of an early Byzantine church 4 (probably at Prym-
nessos). The church, apparently, contained a series of texts from Isaiah,
another of which is preserved, no. 675- Eusebius in describing the great
church at Antioch, //. U. X 4, makes a series of quotations from Isaiah ;
and it was evidently a custom from the fourth century to use quotations
from Isaiah as the epigraphic equipment of a church. A third example
occurs at Philomelion no. 676.

6j$. (R. 1883). Afion-Kara-Hissar. JJv(evp)a Kv(p'io)v eir' epe, ov
elveKev [exp)ei(rev pe' [dyaWidaOco] | f] f^J^X'? lJi0V ^7r' K(iipi)co- ivebvcrev ydp
pe elp[drtov crunrj^J^ov Kal \LrS>va ev^poo-vvrjs' «s vvv<p[i<j> itepUdr^Ke p]oi,
piTpav Kal cbs vvixprjv KaTeKoa-[pr]aev pe Kocrl/xcp]. /cot Troi?jcri 6 0(eo)s
K(vpio)s 2a/3aco# irdcriv to[is eOveaiv]. \ em to opos tovto neLovTai eixppo-
crv\yr}V, Treioz/j|rcu olvov, yjte'io-ovTai pvvpov ev [rco opei tovtui].

This is compounded of Isaiah LXI 1 and 10 and XXV 6. The
words from ayaWiaado) to Koapui occur in Eusebius's description of the
Church at Antioch ; and were evidently commonly employed to describe
the adornment of architecture with which the Church is equipped. The
first eight words are the opening of a quotation in Luke IV 18, the text
of Jesus's sermon at Nazareth. It apparently broke off suddenly in this
inscr.

1 BCH 1880 pp. 196 f. In all, 24 Chr. + plain, and are perhaps about 350-

epitaphs are there published : of these 400.

5 or 6 mention the occupation of the 2 Probably rai was not expressed :

deceased (which, as M. Le Blant points there seems no room for it.

out] ceased at a comparatively early 3 So Pococke : Hamilton -rjvov.

time to be mentioned), 1 or 2 of them 4 Or the baptistery connected with it.
being soldiers. Some of them have