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Inscriptions from Casarea, Lydae, Patara, Myra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

E. L. Hicks
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In last year's volume of this Journal (ix. pp. 82, 83) Mr. Theodore Ben described the situation of this Carian town, which he discovered about three miles to the north-east of Loryma. In laying before the reader the inscriptions found on this site, from which we recover its name, I would call attention to the accompanying Map of Casarea and its neighbourhood, prepared by Mr. Bent at my request. He has made it the more valuable by adding the following memoranda:—

‘During investigations on the southern coast of Caria, near the promontory anciently called Cynossema, and now known as Cape Aloupo or Fox, we were anchored in the Bay of Aplotheka, around which are the ruins of ancient Loryma. Whilst here, we heard from the peasants of a curious harbour and ruins at a little distance from the bay. Accordingly we rowed along the coast in our boat past several islets, and soon arrived at this harbour, the entrance of which is not a stone's throw across, though it opens within into a considerable basin surrounded by high mountains.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 10 , November 1889 , pp. 46 - 85
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1889

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page 46 note 1 Photographic views and plans of Loryma are published in Benndorf and Niemann, Lykien, vol. i. plates ix., x.; p. 20.

page 47 note 1 The ancient Φοȋνιξ: see Ptolemy, v. 2 § 11, and Strabo xiv. p. 652: Compare Bulletin de Corr. Hell. x. 1886, pp. 248 foll., where some inscriptions from Phoenix are published.

page 47 note 2 Ptolemy is usually careful to enumerate the names of places in proper geographical order: accordingly the position of Κρῆσα λιμήν in his list is important, as confirming the identification of Κρῆσα λιμήν with the modern Sersa,—viz. Loryma, Portus Cresa, Phenike. There may well be a connexion also between the names Κρῆσα and Sersa.

page 47 note 3 While I am preparing this paper there reaches me from Paris the index, just issued, of the first ten volumes of the Bulletin, ‘Table générale des dix premières années (1877–1886).’ This will be a welcome help to all the readers of the Bulletin, that is to say to every student of Classical antiquities throughout the world. The Table is planned on a larger and fuller scale than either the Register of the Mittheilungen, or Mr. Hamilton Smith's Index to the Hellenic Journal, and contains both a Table des noms propres Grecs and another des noms de choses Grecs. I find however that the Index of proper names s.v. Κασαρεύς, Κασαρίς, omits the references to ii. 618 and x. 259.

page 50 note 1 Kiepert gives the name as Klydae in his Atlas von Hellas, 1851.

page 77 note 1 I am reminded by a friend that Sintenis restores Πολυπέρχων on the authority of the MSS. in two passages of Plutarch (Dion, 58; Demetrius, 9); also in Eumenes, 12 the unsibilated form is a variant.