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Inscriptions from Nacoleia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

W. M. Ramsay
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Nacoleia is situated at the western border of the wide treeless plain which extends over the greater part of northern Phrygia and Galatia. In front of it north and east lies the great valley, which is drained by the river Sangarius or Sagaris: behind it are the Phrygian mountains, in which are the most important remains of the old Phrygian kingdom about six hours' journey away. The ancient city was placed on an isolated hill at the mouth of a glen bordered by higher hills: the modern town of Seid-el-Ghazi lies below this hill in the glen. A very fine old mosque, which would well reward careful examination, is placed far up on one of the higher hills: in it are buried Seid-el-Ghazi, the Arab general of Haroun al Raschid, and his wife the Greek princess. Much interesting information about these personages, and about the later history of Nacoleia, may be found in Mordtmann's paper, Münch. Gel. Anz. 1860. It is unnecessary to repeat anything that has been already said by him about the city, which plays a considerable part in later Roman history and was the scene of several important battles.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 3 , November 1882 , pp. 119 - 127
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1882

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page 119 note 1 We reached the place on June 3 just before sunset, and had next day a nine hours' journey before us. My time was occupied in copying nineteen inscriptions, and I could not visit the site of the old city.

page 119 note 2 Mordtmann is however quite wrong in thinking that Akroinos was a Byzantine name of Nacoleia. The bishopric of Akroinos is mentioned in Not. Episc. iii., x., and xiii.: but in both iii. and x. Nacoleia is also mentioned as a metropolitan see.

page 120 note 1 The xx. of the Pentinger Table must be corrected to thirty.

page 122 note 1 I am indebted to the Rev. W. W. Capes for valuable help on this subject.

page 123 note 1 I did not see this inscription, but take the copy of Mordtmann.

page 123 note 2 I have not thought it necessary to take up space with the uncial text, except where the reading is difficult or the text of importance.

page 123 note 3 Lajarde, (Annali, 1841, p. 219)Google Scholar confuses this Zeus Bronton with the Mithric title Bonus Deus Bronton or ἀστρόβροντος δαίμων.

page 124 note 1 On the connection between the weather and the conception of the supreme god, see Mommsen, , Delphica, p. 3Google Scholar.

page 125 note 1 On the associations of the Neoi, see Curtius, C., Hermes, vii. p. 43Google Scholar: Collignon, Les Colleges de Νέοι dans les Cités Grecques, Annal. d. Facul. d. Lettr. Bordeaux, 1880: Bull. Corr. Hell. v. p. 389, iv. p. 240.

page 127 note 1 Inscriptions from Nacoleia besides those published here may be found in C.I.G., C.I.L., Mordtmann, in Münch. Gel. Anz. 1860Google Scholar, and in Berichte Verhandl. Münch. 1861 (a paper which I have not the opportunity of seeing in Athens), Kirchhoff, , Annali, 1861Google Scholar.