MAMA XI 153 (Pentapolis)

The 9th of February 1059 was a Tuesday (Lietzmann and Aland 1984: 8; 45), and hence we should have here ἡμ(έρᾳ) γ´ (the first day of the week being Sunday). Errors of this kind are not uncommon; Worp 1991 collects 26 weekday indications in Greek documentary texts before AD 700, of which no fewer than 12 involve conflicting data. Cf. also I.Apameia 59, with BE 1989, 939-40.

This inscription is mentioned in TIB Phrygien 414-5, s.v. Yanıkören: ‘Im Ort Grabstein eines Bischofs Leōn aus dem Jahre 1059, der aus der Ruinenstätte stammen soll’; it is published, with a slightly defective text, by Drew-Bear 2011, and is now (2011) situated in the garden of the Hudaï Kaplıcası near Sandıklı. The site at Yanıkören was first described by Hamilton 1842: II 167-8 (not noted by the TIB): ‘Foundations and heaps of building-stones were lying about in all directions; a large building on a low rising ground, extending from east to west, had perhaps been a church, but of rude and rough construction, and the circular bema at the eastern end was gone: at a short distance from it was a low tumulus, round which were the foundations and remains of a wall and ditch; it was apparently formed of the ruins of fallen buildings, and near it were a few blocks of white marble.’ Hamilton seems to have been the only traveller to have seen the ruins of this particular church at Yanıkören. The tumulus is also mentioned by Philippson 1910-15: IV 74 (‘Giovrek’, i.e. Güre); cf. also Ramsay, Phrygia II 623 n.1. The site is identified with ancient Lysias by Drew-Bear ap. TIB Phrygien 414-5, s.v. Yanıkören, and with ancient Otrous by Drew-Bear 2011.