APERBAE. [Apeblab.] ATESA5 CArt4iras: Fvkd), a monntun in Pe- kpcanesae abore Nemea in the territoij of Cleonae, wbere Ptonens is said to have been the &st person, vfao aaulfi ee d to Zens Apesantiiis. (Leake, Iforea, voL iiL p. 3S5; Boss, PeioponneSf p. 40.) A´PHACA (Ἄφακα: Afka), a town of Syria, midway between Heliopolis and Byblus. (Zosim. i. 58.) In the neighbourhood was a marvellous lake. (Comp. Senec. Quaest. Nat. iii. 25.) Here was a temple of Aphrodite, celebrated for its impure and abominable rites, and destroyed by Constantine. (Euseb. de Vita, iii. 55; Sozom. ii. 5.) Aphek in the land assigned to the tribe of Asher (Joshua, xix. 30), but which they did not occupy (Judges i. 31), has been identified with it. (Winer, Real Wort. art. Aphek.) Burckhardt (Travels, p. 25) speaks of a lake Liemoun, 3 hours' distance from Afka, but could hear of no remains there. (Comp. paper by Rev. W. Thomson, in Am. Bibliotheca Sacra, vol. v. p. 5.) [ E. B. J. ]
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The site of Aphle is supposed to have been at Ahuxxz (Bn.). It is supposed to be the Aginis of Nearchus (p. 73, Hadson), and the Agcrra of Ptolemy. [P. S.] APHNITIS. [DAflCTLins.] APHBODrSIAS ('A^Sio-uif} Eih. *A^po. 8((ric^f, Aphrodisienns). 1. (Ghent) an ancient town of Caria, situated at Ghera or Geyra^ south of Antiocheia on the Maeander, as is proved by in- scriptions which have been copied by several tra- vellers. Drawings of the remains of Aphrodisias have been made by the order of the Dilettanti So- ciety. There are the remains of an Ionic temple of Aphrodite, the goddess from whom the place took the name of Aphrodisias ; fifteen of the white marble columns are still standing. A Greek inscription on a tablet records the donation of one of the colomns to Ai^rodite and the demus. Fellows (LycicL, p. 32) has described the remains of Aphrodisias, and given a view of the temple. The route of Fellows was from Antiocheia on the Maeander up the valley of the Moeynns, which appears to be the ancient name of the stream that joins the Maeander at An- tiocheia ; and Aphrodisias lies to the east of the head of the valley in which the Mcsynns rises, and at a considerable elevation. Stepfaanns (s. v. MryaX^oXis), says that it was first a city of the Leleges, and, on account of its magnitude, was called Megalopolis; and it was also called Ninoe, firom Ninus (see also s. v. fiur&ii)^ — a confrised bit of history, and useful for nothing except to show that it was probably a city of old foundation. Strabo (p. 576) assigns it to the division of Phiygia; but in Pliny (v. 29) it is a Garian city, and a free city (AphrodiBienses liberi) in the Boman sense of that period. In the time of Tiberius, when there was an inquiry about the right of asyla, which was claimed and ezeroised by many Greek cities, the Aphrodisienses relied on a decree of the dictator Gaesar for their services to his party, and on a recent decree of Augustus. (Tac. Ann. iii. 62.) Sherard, in 1705 or 1716, copied an inscription at Aphro- disias, which he communicated to Ghishull, who pub- lished it in his Anttquitates Aaiaticae. This Greek inscription is a Gonsultum of the Boman senate, which confirms the privileges granted by the Dic- tator and the Triumviri to the Aphrodisienses. The Gonsultum is also printed in Oberlin's TaciiuSy and elsewhere. This Gonsultum gives freedom to the demus of the Plaraseis and the Aphrodisieis. It also declares the temenos of the goddess Aphrodite in the city of the Plaraseis and the Aphrodisieis to have the same rights as the temple of the Ephesia at Ephesus; and the temenos was declared to be an asylum. Plarasa then, also a city uf Garia, and Aphrodisias were in some kind of alliance and inti- mate relation. There are coins of Plarasa; and "coins with a legend of both names are also not very uncommon." (Leake.) COIN OF APHRODISIAS IN CARIA. |