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A Hellenistic Survival at Eucarpia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2015

W. M. Calder
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Two good friends have supplied me with the material for a note which I dedicate, with kind wishes, to a third.

Michael Ballance inaugurated the epigraphical harvest of our journey in 1954 with the discovery of two remarkable inscriptions at Emircik near Beyce Sultan (territory of Eumeneia). One of these served to clinch an argument in Anatolian Studies, V, 1955, p. 38. The second is no. 1 below.

A few days later Habip Zebir Ağa, itinerant tinker of Sandıklı, called at the excavation headquarters to remind me of an earlier encounter which I had forgotten. He had visited Synnada in the exercise of his craft in 1930 while the American Society's expedition was working there, and I had taught him how to copy Greek inscriptions and urged him to make copies of any monuments he might find in the course of his work in central Phrygia. He brought with him a bundle of copies he had made during the intervening years, mainly from Synnada, the Pentapolis and the Eumeneticus Campus. A number of these copies are of known monuments and show that, for one ignorant of Latin and Greek, he is a careful and reliable copyist. One of his copies is no. 2 below.

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Anatolian Studies , Volume 6 , December 1956 , pp. 49 - 51
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Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1956

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page 49 note 1 I take the opportunity to add two notes on the above article. In a lecture to the Institute on 2nd December, 1955, I suggested that the animal referred to on p. 33, no. 2, is a fox and that the reference is to Song of Songs, ii, 15. On p. 36, no. 6, line 11, a Latin cross should have been appended to τὸν Θεόν.

page 50 note 1 Dittenberger, Or. Gr., no. 502.

page 50 note 2 Note that in no. 1 Patrocles traces his family back for six generations. I take ἰστρατιώτης to refer to (auxiliary) service in the Roman army.

page 50 note 3 See MAMA., VII, pp. ix f.Google Scholar, xiii. May I anticipate reviewers in pointing out a foolish omission in p. IX note 3 ? After Diocletian's reorganisation the boundary between Apameia and Apollonia separated Phrygia Pacatiana from Pisidia.

page 51 note 1 AJA., XXXVI, 1932, p. 544Google Scholar, no. 5.

page 51 note 2 A Rhodian epitaph of the Hellenistic period was dedicated by a Νεαπολίτας τᾶς ἀπό Φρυγίας. In the preceding note Professor Robert pays me the compliment of attributing to me a sentence of Ramsay's, which he describes as “une fantaisie”. En revanche Professor Robert had already (op. cit., p. 185) laid me under a debt by identifying three Neapolitan names, which I had mistakenly treated as Pisidian, as names of Thracian immigrants.

page 51 note 3 Among 1685 monuments from central and eastern Phrygia published in MAMA., I, IV, VI and VII, seven are of Hellenistic date (IV, nos. 49, 75, 136, 141, 158, 159; VI, no. 173).