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Ceramus (Κέραμος) and its Inscriptions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

E. L. Hicks
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Mr. W. R. Paton, who is very well acquainted with the Gulf of Cos, has been good enough to send me some impressions and copies which he recently made of inscriptions at Keramo, the site of the ancient Ceramus. So few are the documents hitherto published from this town, that I readily consented to edit these copies for the Journal, the more so because I had been led to study the history of Caria somewhat minutely in connexion with another town of this region, Iasos. It happens also that one of the very few instances where Ceramus is named, even in inscriptions, is in a decree of Ephesus, discovered by Mr. Wood and now in the British Museum, which I have recently prepared for the press. We shall have occasion to refer to it presently.

Before proceeding to examine the inscriptions, I am glad to transcribe an account of the neighbourhood of Ceramus which I begged Mr. Paton to draw up, knowing well how interesting such particulars are to less-travelled students of Greek antiquities.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 11 , November 1890 , pp. 109 - 128
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1890

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page 109 note 1 See my paper on Iasos in an earlier number of the Hellenic Journal, viii. (1887) p. 85; compare Ibid. ix. (1888) p. 338.

page 109 note 2 Published by Wood, Ephesus, ‘Inscriptions from the City and Suburbs,’ No. 16. It will form No. ccccxlvii. in the forthcoming Part iii. of the Greek Inscriptions in the British Museum. The name [Κ]εράμιοι was not recognized or read by the earlier editor.

page 109 note 3 The island is called by the Greeks Νησὶ τῆς Παναγίας and by the Turks Seiroglou: the town was identified as the ancient Κεδρεαί by Diehl, MM. and Cousin by means of an inscription found there (Bulletin de Corr. Hell. x. 1886, p. 426)Google Scholar.

page 110 note 1 I subsequently saw him annihilate a partridge while it was drinking: I ate the fragments of this bird, and am grateful to him.

page 110 note 2 Identified with the modern Giova by Diehl, MM. and Cousin, on the strength of an inscription found there (Bulletin de Corr. Hell. x. p. 429)Google Scholar: Judeich, speaks more doubtfully (Mittheilungen, xii. p. 338, note)Google Scholar.

page 111 note 1 A brief note of this journey from Ceramus to Moughla, will be found printed in the Classical Review of 1888, p. 328.Google Scholar

page 111 note 2 Newton, 's Halicarnassus, &c., ii. p. 631.Google Scholar

page 111 note 3 The site of Bargasa is still unknown, if Giova is rightly identified with Idyma: see note 5 ante. The words of Strabo would lead one to seek for Bargasa between Ceramus and Halicarnassus. Pliny's geography of this region (v. 29) seems confused and faulty.

page 112 note 1 In Xen. Hist. i. 4, 8: Κεραμικὸν κόλπον, Ibid. ii. 1 § 15: Κεράμειον κόλπον, if the texts are right.

page 112 note 2 See Head, , Historia Numorum, p. 522Google Scholar.

page 112 note 3 In connexion with Iasos; Hellenic Journal, viii. (1887), p. 85.

page 112 note 4 Polyb. xxx. 5: Ibid. xxxi. 7:

page 112 note 5 There are only eight coins of Ceramos in the British Museum; so rare are they. Only four contain magistrates' names.

page 113 note 1 [I suspect that (Mionnet, Supp. No. 207) should be read the of the other coin is also a magistrate's name, see No. 11 post, and we should read W. R. P.]

page 116 note 1 Laina (Λάγινα) ‘is situated about two hours north by west from Eski Hissar (Stratonicea)’ writes SirNewton, C., Halicarnassus, &c., p. 554.Google Scholar

page 117 note 1 See the important Senatusconsultum inscribed at Lagina, (Bulletin, 1885, ix. p. 437)Google Scholar.

page 117 note 2 Newton, l. c. pp. 33, 615.

page 118 note 1 Polybius, xxxi. 7.