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A Journey in Cilicia Tracheia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Extract

The district which forms the subject of the following remarks is that which we know from Strabo, as well as from numismatic evidence, to have formed the kingdom of Olba, ruled over in ancient times by a family of priest-kings, priests of Jove, dynasts of Olba, and toparchs of Lalassis and Kennatis. Having made a careful exploration of this district, and collected therein the inscriptions which are to follow, I propose to treat the subject-matter under four distinct heads, into which the ground traversed naturally divides itself:—

First, the ruins of the three great coast towns between the mouth of the Lamas gorge and the plain of Selefkeh, namely Augusta-Sebaste or Elaeussa, Corycos, and Pseudo-Corasion.

Secondly, the first plateau above the sea, studded with ruined towers and villages, and chiefly remarkable for the three great caves or depressions in the ground, one dedicated to the Corycian Jove, a second to the Olban Jove, and a third alluded to only by Pomponius Mela as Typhoneus.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1891

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References

page 208 note 1 It should be remembered that in the imprecations commonly occurring upon tombstones of this region the sun and moon are often invoked.—E.L.H.

page 214 note 1 This doorway Mr. Hogarth considers to have been cut later, and to belong to the church.

page 220 note 1 Mr. Hogarth copied the marks as follows.—E. L. H.

page 221 note 1 See Davies', Asiatic Turkey, p. 23Google Scholar, where are woodcuts of similar brackets from columns at Pompeiopolis.

page 222 note 1 It is worth while to note that Mr. Ramsay and Mr. Hogarth call this site not Meidan but Bagche Deresi. Meidan appears to be a general name for the whole district.—E. L. H.