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Regio Ipsina et Moeteana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

M. H. Ballance
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This article stems from the writer's discovery in 1955 of an inscribed sarcophagus at Prymnessus, the modern Süğlün, 8 km. south-east of Afyon. It had been intended to follow this up by a reexamination of the stone itself and by an intensive survey, on the ground, of the ancient topography of the valley of the Phrygian Caÿster. But the necessary field-work has been prevented by various considerations, both inside and outside Turkey, and it seems only fair to others interested in this part of Phrygia to publish the inscription and draw at least preliminary conclusions from it.

Süğlün; reused as a horse-trough in a fountain, Güvercinlik Çeşmesi, at the south end of the village. Pink trachyte sarcophagus, moulded above, buried below, with tabula ansata. Height 0·57 m. plus, width 2·07 m., thickness 0·83 m., letters 0·03–0·04 m.

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Research Article
Information
Anatolian Studies , Volume 19 , December 1969 , pp. 143 - 146
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1969

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References

1 Hierocles (677) gives the order Synnada—Prymnessus—Ipsus—Polybotus—Docimium—Metropolis—Meirus—Nacoleia—Dorylaeum, which is perfectly logical, so far as it can be checked, with Ipsus at Çay (see map, fig. 2). The Notitiae (I 376, III 331, VII 156, VIII 429, IX 339, X 443, XIII 293) contain frequent references to Ipsus, but make no mention of Julia. For bishops of Ipsus attending councils (from 451) and for the suggestion of Sipsin as the site of Ipsus, see Honigmann, , Byzantion X, 1935, pp. 647 ffGoogle Scholar. The battle is described by Plutarch, Demetr. 28 ff.Google Scholar and Diodorus XX, 107–XXI, 1. Plut., Pyrrh. 4Google Scholar, Appian, Syr. 55Google Scholar and Arrian VIII, 18, 5 add little to these.

2 Robert, L., Hellenica VII (1949) pp. 214 ff.Google Scholar; Ramsay, W. M., J.H.S. VIII, 1887, pp. 490 fGoogle Scholar. and Social Basis of Roman Power in Asia Minor, 1941, pp. viii, 296 ff.Google Scholar; Kiepert, R., Forma Orbis Antiqui VIII, p. 12 bGoogle Scholar; W. Ruge in RE s.v. Ipsos.

3 Arundell, F. V. J., Discoveries in Asia Minor, I, 1834, pp. 281 f.Google Scholar; see also Ruge in RE s.v. Philomelion. The distance from Akşehir to Ladik (Laodiceia Catacecaumene) is in fact about 60 m.p. The station omitted by the Table is perhaps Lageina or Tyriaeum, (M.A.M.A. VII, pp. xvii f.Google Scholar) near the modern Ilgın, which is about 31 m.p. from Akşehir and 29 from Ladik. For Ramsay's distances, see references given above in note 2. Robert, L., Hellenica VII, pp. 215, 219Google Scholar.

4 The Yapılcan inscription, Anderson, , J.H.S. XVII, 1897, pp. 417 ff.Google Scholar, XVIII, 1898, p. 341; Tottoion, , J.H.S. VIII, 1887, p. 513Google Scholar; Tottoa seems a more natural form, but (a different) Tottaio(n) is attested by It. Ant. (K. Miller, Itineraria Romana, col. 657); Soa, G. Perrot, Exploration de la Galatie, pp. 122 ff.Google Scholar; Anderson, in S.E.R.P., p. 187Google Scholar; for Rostovtzeff's restoration of the Yapılcan, text, see E.S.A.R. IV, pp. 659 fGoogle Scholar.

5 Zgusta, L., Kleinasiatische Personennamen, Prague, 1964, p. 342 noteGoogle Scholar; Robert, L., Hellenica VII, p. 220Google Scholar.