of the Greco-Roman Era in certain ancient Sites of Asia Minor. 61 
the Romans, who certainly was a Stephanephoros,* and, though not of ponti- 
fical rank, belonged to the College of the Pontifices.t 
Another circumstance is also to be remarked with respect to the Flamines 
(those, at least, of the municipal towns), namely, that no one was eligible to the 
office, unless he had passed through the magisterial grades.[ The discharge of 
municipal functions was therefore introductory to that of the priestly; and this 
agrees well with the notices which we possess of the office of the Stephanephoros, 
which appears to have been partly civil and partly sacerdotal. 
I have found these extending over a wide range in Asia Minor. Athenus 
makes express mention of a Stephanephoros of Tarsus. Stratoniceia had also its 
magistrate of the same name, as appears from the inscriptions which Chishull has 
published, from Sherard’s collection. It occurs in an inscription from Mylasa, 
which Mr. Fellows has copied, and in another from a site which I also visited 
myself, which the geographer D’Anville has conjectured to have been that of 
Nysa, but on questionable grounds. This is in Lydia. Smyrna had also its 
Stephanephoros, after whom, as in the case of the apxwv eravupos of the 
Athenians, the year was named.§ 
* This is proved by the passage in Prudentius, Contra Symmach. i. 216, s. 
** Et Indos stupuit, celsa et Capitolia vidit, 
Laurigerosque detim templis adstare ministros.” 
Compare Van Dale, Dissert. de Stephaneph. ubi supra, who cites Plato, De Legibus, xii. (Vol. 
ix. p. 188, Bipt) 
{ Vid. Pitisci Lexie. Antigg. in voc. Flamen,’ vol. ii. p. 162, a. 
t “Flamines..... in municipiis...... erant ex ordine Decurionum, nec prius sacerdotio 
ornari poterant, quam municipalia munera obivissent.” Panvin. De Civit. Roman. 77, c. de De- 
curion., quoted by Pitiscus, u.s. p. 164, a. 
§ The passage in Athenzus to which I have referred in this paragraph is lib. v. c. 54, b- That 
of Chishull is Antig. Asiat. p. 156. The others are, Discov. in Lycia, Append. A. Titt. Ixx. p. 362 ; 
xe. p. 367. Béckh, Corp. Inser., Nos. 2694, 2714. 
The site to which reference has here been made is now occupied by Nazeh-lt (_Jajb 5 a town 
in the plain of the Mzandrus on the way from Aidin-Guitizel-Hissar to Gheyerah. This has been 
fixed by the geographer D’Anville, but erroneously, on the site of the ancient Nysa; see my first 
Memoir, p. 126. Pococke had committed the same mistake, as appears from his travels, and Jn- 
scriptt. Antigg. pp. 11, sq. 
