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A Silver Find from South-West Asia Minor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

P. Jacobsthal  and
A. H. M. Jones
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The objects published here with the kind permission of Dr. Jacob Hirsch are said to have been found at ‘Seki Bazar between Makli and Elmali’: the place is probably to be identified with the village Sekia, shown on the map in O. Benndorf and G. Niemann, Reisen im südwestlichen Kleinasien i, four miles north of the site of Oinoanda. Sekia lies about half-way along the road between Makri (Makli is unknown and is probably a mispronunciation of Makri) and Elmali. The internal evidence of the inscriptions confirms that the find must come from somewhere in SW Asia Minor. The find consists of two inscribed plaques with busts and fragments of a wreath. We first describe the objects, then comment on the inscriptions, and finally discuss the problems which arise from a study of them.

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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , 1940 , pp. 16 - 31
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Copyright © P. Jacobsthal and A. H. M. Jones 1940. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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1 I saw these treasures first in 1930 at Geneva: Dr. Jacob Hirsch very kindly sent the originals to Marburg, where I could study and photograph them with the assistance of Dr. E. Neuffer, and later again to Oxford. I formed an idea of their nature and importance and read the inscriptions with the exception of C and D, but I soon realized that for the solution of the problem of the era and for other questions concerning the history of SW Asia Minor in Roman times I must depend on collaboration with experts. I found them in Oxford: Professor J. G. C. Anderson and Dr. W. H. Buckler helped me, and then Mr. A. H. M. Jones, who has made a special study of this region, was kind enough to write the paper with me. For advice and suggestions we are indebted to Professor R. Delbrueck, Professor G. Klaffenbach, Dr. B. D. Meritt, Dr. A. Raubitschek, Professor Louis Robert, and Professor R. Zahn; for squeezes and observations to Dr. J. Hirsch, to Miss Christine Alexander, and Miss Gisela M. A. Richter. Professor J. D. Beazley has read and improved the manuscript. P.J.

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25 The text given here relies on readings by P. J. and Dr. Buckler, checked by Dr. Meritt and Dr. Raubitschek.

26 Dr. Buckler thought he could see τὰ ἀγάλμα | τα χρυσ[ᾶ] | [ ̇] ο̣ν̣, but Dr. Meritt was unable to confirm this reading from the original: this being so, it is safer to eliminate it from discussion.

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31 See Jones, op. cit. 396, n. 76.

32 Otherwise χειροπόνια is unknown in this sense; Hesychius gives χειροπόνια. ἑορτὴ ἐν ᾖ τεχνῖται θύουσιν.

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38 Robert, Études Anatoliennes 486.

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49 Ibid. 307, no. III.

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54 L.c. 308–9, nos. 120–1.

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