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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
The inscriptions here published were in the main copied by me during excursions made in the years 1912–1914. A few are reproduced from squeezes furnished by residents of Thyateira (Ak-hissar) and Smyrna who travelled much in the surrounding country. Of the texts from Philadelpheia (Ala-shehir) four (Nos. 1–4) came to light in 1913–1914 among the materials of the picturesque old Kursum-khane, the upper stories of which were being pulled down. These monuments, with five others (Nos. 5–9), were preserved at the official residence of the Metropolitan of Philadelpheia, by whose kindness I was enabled to take copies and squeezes.
Unless otherwise stated, these inscriptions are presumed to be unpublished, but owing to the present difficulty of obtaining foreign scientific journals, this point is in some doubt.
1 For a similar distinction between different forms of adjective, cf. Newton's remarks on Λαοδίκειος and Λαοδικηνός I.B.M. iii. 1, p. 2.
2 K.P. I, II, and III. denote the Berichte of the three journeys in Lydia published by Keil, J. and A. v. Premerstein in Denkschr. Wien. Akad. liv.–lvii. 1908–1914Google Scholar. The Arabic figures refer to the numbers borne by the inscriptions.
3 Further research will doubtless reveal many other traces of ownership or tenure by rich men of lands in a κώμη. Among such traces, I suspect, we may include the ruinous house of Tib. Claudius Sokrates at Stratonikeia in Lydia, (Syll. 2387Google Scholar; R. de Phil. xxxvii. 1913, p. 300, n. 4), which had probably belonged to him when he owned lands in the estate (χώρα) out of which Hadrian created the new πόλις. From the fact that the emperor disposes of the house we may conjecture that he had bought it with the other holdings of Sokrates, probably with a view to the new foundation, i. e. about 123 A. D. Not being used or kept up by Sokrates, the house would naturally have fallen into disrepair by 127, when Hadrian wrote his letter.
4 In K.P. I. 191 the indiction year is taken as having begun on August 1.
5 I infer a triad, partly because of the uniformity in script of ll. 1–2, partly because triads were then in fashion. On a second century carnelian gem bought by me in Smyrna Serapis is represented standing between Agathe Tyche and Demeter.
6 The others are: I. v. Priene 37 (=I.B.M. 403), ll. 137–8, but see Nachtrag, p. 309; I.B.M. 441, l. 92 (Iasos, ); B.C.H. xxviii. 1904, pp. 345–6Google Scholar, nos. 1–2 (Stratonikeia). See also. p. 3S4, note 1.
