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of the Greco-Roman Era in certain ancient Sites of Asia Minor. 15 
the course of the Me@andrus, leaving that of Nysa to the left, to the point where 
its stream is crossed on the way to Antiocheia in Caria. From this I deflected 
in a southerly direction, along the valley of the Mosynus,* to visit the site of 
Aphrodisias. I then, 
‘* Willing, yet with unwilling mind,” 
retraced my steps to that of Antiocheia, leaving the splendid Cadmian range, 
partly suggested by the remarkable medal cited by Eckhel* from the Cleves Museum, wherein 
Hadrian is styled Cesar, and is called by the name of Trajanus, presents a different aspect : 
EE CEE Ee EO Ee SERAS 
TOY NEPOYA-: YIQNON- ®PATPIEA. 
NEPOYA -AHM- ANTIOXEQN.® «. 7. X. 
Whichever of these explanations of the monument under consideration may be regarded as the 
more probable, an advantage is gained by the student, whether of history or of archeology. The se- 
cond throws additional light, as I have already remarked, on the question of Hadrian’s adoption ; the 
first adds a new record to those which Marini has so laboriously collected in illustration of his work 
on the Arval Brothers, and occupies a rank coordinate to that of the titulus of Smith and Spon. 
* This is mentioned by Pliny, v. 29, 6, where the readings vary from Orsinus and Mossinus 
to that here given. The Turkish name is Alcea A NG the river of Yény-shehir, the Maule lg 
tive of the ancient Antiocheia on the Mzandrus. 
a Vid. Doctr. N. V. vol. vi. p. 473. 
» A question arises here, into the discussion of which I have entered at some length in my work referred to 
above, p. 89, ss. and ductar. p. 194, relative to the Antiocheia here styled EN. TOQI.XPYSOPOATQN. The 
evidence of history and of medals, in which Hadrian’s name appears so closely connected with the capital of Syria, 
would lead us to conclude that the Antiocheia of the Orontes in the one alluded to here ; but the difficulty is, that it 
is no where to be found described as in the territory of the Chrysorrhoate. It is true, that it might, in a certain 
sense, be so denominated, as the Orontes has its source in the neighbourhood of the Chrysorrhoas of Damascus; but 
this appears strained. 
I have stated in my note on this passage in my Fasciculus Inscriptionum that we have also our choice of Edessa, 
or Antiocheia of the Osrhoenes; but this appears to be untenable on historical grounds, as Edessa did not come 
into the hands of the Romans until the age of Caracalla. 
Probabilities are therefore in favour of some city of Asia Minor being here intended. Of these, the Pisidian 
Antiocheia appears to haye been too remote from the Mwandrus and the Hermus, of which the Lycus and the 
Pactolus, each also called Chrysorrhoas, were respectively tributary streams; but not so Tralles, one of whose 
names was Antiocheia, and the Carian town mentioned in my note (ubi supra) as in the neighbourhood of the 
Meandrus. These may, from their undoubted vicinity to the rivers Chrysorrhoz, haye been denominated as in the 
region of the Chrysorrhoate, as also Hierapolis of Phrygia, one of the coins of which exhibits XPYZOPOAS on the 
reyerse ; but I have no where been able to find that Antiocheia was one of the names of this latter city. 
The reader may consult on these points, Eckhel. Doctr. Num. Vet. vol. iii. p. 155. Rasche,.Lezic. Univ, Ret 
Numm. yol. ii. p. 274, Plin. vy. 29, 6. 
