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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
The following random lot of inscriptions was noted during three brief trips into the territory around Olba-Diocaesareia, in the spring of 1966, while we were guests at the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara. These trips were part of a year of archaeological wandering made possible by the grant of the Olivia James Travelling Fellowship, administered by the Archaeological Institute of America.
1. Seleuceia-Korykos: This inscription was discovered by the able and energetic curator of antiquities at Silifke, Mr. Mehmet Belen, to whose great kindness we owe our knowledge of it. It is cut on a rock face above some faint traces of an ancient road from Korasion to Korykos, which runs parallel to the modern coast road at this point. About 19 km. east of Silifke, the modern road turns north away from the shore, and runs inland along the west side of a seasonal watercourse called Kuru Dere, “dry river bed”. Just north of the gravel bank at the mouth of Kuru Dere, at a point where the rock wall cuts back from the west side of the road to form a very small tributary stream bed, there are faint traces of rock cut steps some 5 metres above the road. Above these, on the south side of the tributary stream bed, a roughly dressed rectangular panel, 0·80 × 0·45 m., has been cut into the rock.
1 On the map in Keil, J. and Wilhelm, A., Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiquae III, (1931)Google Scholar, Plate I, the position will be just above and to the left of the k of Kurudere. On the map of the Turkish Cartographic Service, 1: 200,000, sheet Mersin, the position will be just below and slightly to the left of the final i of Ayaştürklimenli. This latter map offers an excessively simplified picture of the irregularities of the coast in the vicinity of Korykos.
2 Zgusta, L., Kleinasiatische Personennamen, (Prague, 1964)Google Scholar, gives a considerable number of names beginning in Appa-, but very few of them are from Cilicia, and none resembles Appalis.
3 Heberdey, u. Wilhelm, , “Reisen in Kilikien (1891–1892),” Denkschriften der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, XLIV (1896), p. 80Google Scholar. Herzfeld, , “Eine Reise durch das westliche Kilikien im Frühjahr, 1907,” Petermarms Geographische Mitteilungen, LV (1909), pp. 29–30Google Scholar, and map.
4 Léon de Laborde, , Voyage de l'Asie Mineure (Paris, 1838), p. 131Google Scholar.
5 Appendix to Hicks, E. L., “Inscriptions from Western Cilicia,” JHS, XII (1882), pp. 271–273Google Scholar, Nos. 76–78.
6 IGGR, III, 840Google Scholar and MAMA III, p. 6Google Scholar. For the date, see Bean, and Mitford, , “Sites Old and New in Rough Cilicia,” AS, XII (1962), p. 208Google Scholar.
7 Magie, , Roman Rule in Asia Minor, (Princeton, 1950), p. 1145Google Scholar, n. 25.
8 Magie, , RRAM, p. 576Google Scholar.
9 For the name, see Gough, M., “A Temple Church at Ayaş,” AS, IV (1954), p. 54Google Scholar, n. 1.
