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Notes on a Tour in Asia Minor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

A. H. Smith
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In the summer of 1884 I was permitted to accompany Professor Ramsay on his journey in Asia Minor, assisted by the Senate of the University of Cambridge with a grant from the Worts Fund. To my great regret, however, a fever compelled me to return home after spending only two months in the country, during which time I had been a novice in the various arts required for scientific travel. Hence, therefore, so far as my personal share in the expedition is concerned, the results obtained are limited both in number and in value. Such as they are, they are embodied in the following pages, and in the accompanying map; I have also introduced matter, as will be seen by the references, of which the credit belongs entirely to Professor Ramsay.

It will be seen from a study of the map, that our route during the part of the journey to be discussed in these pages, lay in the upper valley of the Maeander, with its tributary the Karasu (Morsynus); in the upper valley of the Gerenis Tchai (Indus); in the valleys of the Gebren Tchai and of the Istanoz Tchai, and in the district west of the Lake of Buldur. As regards the political divisions, it lay in the border lands of Caria, Phrygia, and Pisidia. The whole journey occupied about five weeks, as we left the railway at Kuyujak on May 28, and rejoined it near Denisli on July 5.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 8 , November 1887, pp. 216 - 267
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1887

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page 216 note 1 To avoid the necessity of constantly quoting the name of Professor Ramsay, I must at the outset make a general acknowledgment of my obligations to him for much help received. I must also express my thanks to the Rev. E. L. Hicks for his kindness in reading these sheets, and making valuable suggestions.

page 216 note 2 Some account of the route followed, with dates, will be found in the Cambridge University Reporter, May 5, 1885, in the form of a letter to the Vice-Chancellor of the University.

page 217 note 1 T. F. de Schubert, Exposé des Travaux Astronomiques et Géodésiques, &c.

page 217 note 2 Cf. Martin, Vivien de Saint, Hist. des Découvertes Géog. des nations Européennes, ii. p. 604.Google Scholar

page 219 note 1 1. Kiepert, Karte von Kleinasien und Türkisch Armenien (1842), with corrected sheet for Lycia and Pisidia (Memoir über die Construction der karte Kleinasiens, redigirt von Dr.Kiepert, H., Berlin, 1854, taf. iv.Google Scholar). 2. Kiepert, , Fünf Inschriften und Fünf Städte in Kleinasien, 1840. 3.Google ScholarKiepert, 's map illustrating Tschihatscheff's routes, Perthes' Mittheilungen, Ergänzungsheft 20, 1867.Google Scholar 4. Kiepert, , Prof. G. Hirschfeld's Reiseroute in südwestlichen Kleinasien, 1874Google Scholar; Monatsber. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. zu Berlin, 1879. 5.Google Scholar Kiepert, Lykia; Wien, 1884.

page 220 note 1 Travels in Lycia, vol. i. p. 244.

page 220 note 2 Ritter, , Erdkunde von Asien, ix. ii. p. 675.Google Scholar

page 220 note 3 Athenaeum, Dec. 20, 27, 1884; Mittheilungen des arch. Inst. in Athen, x. p. 335.

page 222 note 1 Athenaeum, Dec. 20, 1884.

page 222 note 2 Mittheilungen des arch. Inst. x. p. 343.

page 222 note 3 I should like to take this opportunity of calling attention to a fact which has not been noticed, so far as I am aware. If it has not been destroyed by Turks or other barbarians, there is an elaborate piece of sculpture at Aphrodisias, which seems to belong to the Pergamene school. ‘In the walls of the city, towards the southwest corner, there are some very fine reliefs, which seem to have been part of a frieze; they are mostly Cupids or winged persons, encountering the giants with spears, bows, and arrows; the latter are represented below with two serpents instead of feet, turning up like the tails of Tritons. At one end Jupiter in a small figure has one under his feet, and is levelling his thunder at another; a person near is drawing a bow at them, and there is a trophy near Jupiter.’—Pococke, , Observations on Asia Minor (1745), p. 70.Google Scholar

page 224 note 1 Cf. Ramsay, , Journal of Hellenic Studies, iv. p. 58.Google Scholar

page 224 note 2 Disc. in Asia Minor, vol. ii. p. 159, ff.

page 225 note 1 vii. chap. 30.

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page 225 note 3 Hirschfeld, , Monatsber. der Akad. zu Berlin, 1879, p. 325.Google Scholar

page 229 note 1 Athenaeum, Dec. 20, 1884; Mittheilungen des arch. Inst. in Athen. x. p. 334.

page 232 note 1 Anatolica, p. 138.

page 232 note 2 Athenaeum, Dec. 20, 1884.

page 232 note 3 Anatolica, p. 138.

page 236 note 1 Collignon, , Bull. de Corr. hell. i. p. 366Google Scholar; ii. p. 170; iii. p. 334, 346; iv. p. 291.

page 236 note 2 Bull. de Corr. hell. iv. pl. ix.

page 247 note 1 C.I.G. 4367.

page 247 note 2 Bull. de Corr. hell. ii. p. 255.

page 247 note 3 Cf. C.I.G. 4366w. = Bull. de Corr. hell. ii. p. 56, No. 1 (at Tefeny); and Bull. de Corr. hell. pp. 243—253, Nos. 7—10, 12 (at Karamanli).

page 247 note 4 Cf. Bull. de Corr. hell. ii. p. 250, l. 8; p. 253, l. 9.

page 248 note 1 Bull. de Corr. hell. ii. p. 263, No. 17.

page 249 note 1 Bull. de Corr. hell. ii. p. 173.

page 263 note 1 Arundell, , Disc. in Asia Minor, ii. p. 116Google Scholar; C.I.G. 3956 b.