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684 EPISTLE OF S. POLYCARP.
sponds exactly with Hecatoiiiba^us 4 in tlae Asiatic calendar given
above (p. 679).
(iv) A fourth example
time and country ;
but I give it,
falls somewhat outside our limits both in
as a valuable confirmation of the correctness
of the calendar in the Florentine Hemerology.
In the Bullet, de
Corresp. Hellen. vii. p. 260 (1883) an inscription of Attalia in Pamphylia
is
given by Prof Ramsay with a Roman and native reckoning; uTro t^s
irpo a €i8toi' M[a]twi' ews r^s irpo l KaX. 'lowtcov, Kara TlafjL(jiv\. ^^/(vi) rj',
k/S' ecos A.a', Twr l 7]fji.€pu}v.
He describes it as 'certainly not earlier than
the third century, to judge from the forms of the letters'. These ten
days in the Roman —
reckoning, prid. Id. Mai x Kal. Jun. (i.e. May 14—
23), correspond exactly to the 8th month Desius 22- — 31, as the 9th
month Panemus begins on May 24.
But the names of the months in the second and third examples
demand notice. The table on the opposite page will best explain what
I conceive to have been the relations of the several calendars with their
respective nomenclatures, and will serve as a basis of discussion.
(i)
The first column gives the Macedonian names, which are also
retained in the so-called '
Ephesian
'
calendar of the Florentine Hemerology
(see above, p. 679), (2) The next system of months is the
'Asiatic', as it appears in this same document (see above, p. 679).
(3) The third gives the familiar Athenian months. (4) The next, the
Cyzicene calendar, is introduced for the sake of comparison ;
inasmuch
as Cyzicus was another Ionian city belonging to the Covimune Asiae,
and its hst of months is almost complete. The materials for this list
will be found in Boeckh C. I. G. 3657, 3661
— 3664, and J. H. Mordtmann
Mittheil. d. Deutsch. Instit. in Athen vi. p. 40 sq (1881). My
order differs from those of previous writers, e.g. Boeckh (iii. p. 920)
and Ahrens {Rhein. Mus. N. F. xvii. p. 329 sq, 1862). The new
materials given by Mordtmann have antiquated these earlier He
lists.
himself declines to pronounce upon the order of the months (p. 50) with
our present materials. But inasmuch as Poseideon was followed by
Lenseon (C /. G. 3664), Lenoson by Anthesterion iib.), Artemision by
Taureon (Mordtmann p. 45), and Calamseon by Panemus (C
/. G.
3663, Mordtmann p. 44), we have only to retain Artemision and Tbargelion
in their proper places, and our calendar is
very nearly completed.
As Ahrens (pp. 336 sq, 345 sq, 365) has shown, Panemus (XlaVr/^os) is
not a late importation into the Ionian calendar from the Macedonian,
but a transmission from a remote past. We need therefore have no scruple
not seeing this, adduces this inscription Hemerologium was not yet in use in
as a proof that 'the calendar of the Smyrna.'