46 Dr. Kennepy Baiiie’s Researches amongst the inscribed Monuments 
fails in establishing it, and chiefly for this reason, that those who had once been 
elected continued ever afterwards to enjoy the title, in the same way as the High- 
Priests amongst the Jews. It is moreover to be observed, that no mention is 
made in this passage of the celebration of games, nor was Ephesus the only city 
of Proconsular Asia where the Asiarchs resided. 
The truth appears to be what I have already stated, namely, that the High 
Priest of Asia was chosen each year by the Proconsul, and that with him the 
other candidates were associated as Assessors, perhaps to assist him in the dis- 
charge of his important duties, as well as to obviate the chances of interruption 
to their fulfilment by his illness or death. 
I may here state in conclusion, and as illustrative of what I have already 
observed with respect to the term Cretarch, that we meet with these functionaries 
in different authors under the names of Bithynarchs, Cappadokarchs, Aetoli- 
archs, Syriarchs, Phenikarchs, Cypriarchs, &c. These appear to have been in 
their respective provinces, what the Asiarchs were in Proconsular Asia.* 
Like some other offices of the Asiatics this was not confined to men of the 
higher stations of society. Females also shared in the honours of the Asiarchate, 
as it appears from the tituli they did in those of an inferior grade, such as the 
Stephanephoria and the superintendence of the Gymnasia.t 
This remarkable fact appears obscurely in one of the inscriptions of Tlos 
bears the inscription ASIAPXHS . IIPOTOS, or A., as there unquestionably would have been, had 
these Assessors been proprio jure Asiarchs. 
The learned reader may consult, in addition to these authorities, Salmas. Hwercit. Plinian. 
p- 805, and Selden’s commentary on the fourth Arundelian marble, quoted by Ussher in Epist. Eccles. 
Smyrnens. c. xii.; also Wetstein. Nov. Test., vol. ii. p- 58. 
The ancient writers, viz., Aristides in Orat. Sacr. p. 8345. Philostratus, Vit. Sophist. xxi., and 
perhaps, Dio Chrysostomus, in Orat. xxxy., may be referred to for illustration of this subject. 
* Bithynia, Lycia, Crete, etc., having had, as well as the Proconsular Asia, their respective 
xowd, or General Conventions for sacred purposes, had also their Functionaries of the Priestly order 
to preside over them, viz., their Biduydpyces, Kpnragyat, etc. See Van Dale, Dissert. ubi supra ; and 
the note in the Patres Apostol., vol. ii. p. 571, Edit. Oxon. 1838. : 
T We possess the evidence of medals and inscriptions as to the fact of distinguished females 
having been admitted to the honours of the Stephanephoria, the Gymnasiarchia, the Hipparchia, nay 
even of the Neocoria, exclusively of the Asiarchate. 
There was, it is true, sound policy in this, as, doubtless, the circumstances of the individuals 
