142 Dr. Kennedy Bailie's Researches amongst the inscribed Monuments 



which has had the misfortune of being decorated with reliefs of the features of 

 the illustrious dead, or of embodying an artist's ideas of a superhuman beauty ! 

 On such as these the Musulman Iconoclast has invariably been sure to wreak his 

 fanatical wrath, and often the very circumstance of their attracting the admira- 

 tion of the dogs, the polite appellation generally bestowed on Ghiours, or 

 Infidels, by all true disciples of Islam, has proved a powerful auxiliary of this 

 principle. An anecdote which has been related by the accomplished Cockerell, 

 places this in a strong light. 



It is thus that the work of demolition is, I fear, in rapid progress amongst 

 the beautiful ruins of the temple of Aphrodite, in the vicinity of which the mud 

 huts of the villagers of Gheyerah have been clustered, with large contributions 

 from the sculptured relics of the ancient Aphrodlsias. 



My road to Pergamus lay to the north-west, through Bakir, Kirkagatch, and 

 Soma, leaving Bulleneh (the representative, as I think, of the ApoUonia men- 

 tioned by Strabo*) to the left, in a direction south by west. I crossed the 

 Ghediz (the ancient Hermus), at a point a little less than half way between 

 Ak-Hissar and the first of these towns. The second, Kirkagatch, was my resting 

 place for two days ; and here I found some memorials of the Carian city Strato- 

 niceia, which have led me to believe that the Turkish town has been in some 

 way or another connected with the Macedonian colony, most probably through 

 immigration of Greek families. 



The memorials to which I here refer, are two of three inscriptions which I 

 copied at Kirkagatch. 



a. The first commemorates the deserts of a citizen named Dlodorus Philo- 

 metor, son of Nicander, who had entitled himself to the honour thus conferred 

 upon him by his patriotism and private benevolence. It was a public act or 

 decree of the senate and people of the Hadrlanopolitan Stratoniceans on behalf 

 of this eminent person, who is mentioned as having discharged every magisterial 

 office (iraaav dpxv'^), as well as public service (XeirovpyLav), on the distinction 

 between which it is unnecessary for me to dwell, in the hearing of those whose 

 classical remembrances will immediately suggest to them the offices of the Archon 

 and the Trierarch amongst the ancient Athenians. 



* Tlpoiitri V am rev iri3(ou tea) T?{ ■xixiut (Pergamus) s?r» ftii t« jrposjs'a fiifA, xoAij 'nrrit MoXhutU. 



Strab. xiii. 4, p. 150. Tauchn. 



