Dedications to Mên Askaenos

Extract

On my first visit to Turkey, in 1955, I was kindly allowed to copy and photograph a number of dedications to the god Mên which are now housed in the Classical Museum, Konya ; they would have been brought from the hieron on Kara Kuyu hill, just outside the colony of Pisidian Antioch, probably after the excavations conducted by Sir W. M. Ramsay in 1912. (In his article “Studies in the Roman Province Galatia, II : Dedications at the Sanctuary of Colonia Caesarea”, JRS. VIII (1918), 107 ff., he refers by number to a list of inscriptions which he seems never to have published.) Eleven of these stones, with three uninscribed monuments, have since been published by Mr. E. N. Lane in the first part of his work on “A Re-study of the God Men”, Berytus XV (1964), 36 ff. Mr. Lane writes : “It [the unpublished material] was all found ostensibly in the course of the excavations which D. M. Robinson carried out in 1924 on the site of the forum of Antioch”.