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DATE OF THE MARTYRDOM. 687
catombseon has been referred to already (p. 683). Yet another inscription,
as read by Boeckh {C. I. G. 3203), mentions a month 2e/3ao-Tos.
If the lacuna is
properly supplied, the month intended would probably
be August, as apparently at Perinthus (Ahrens /. c. p. 345), though it
might possibly be the same as Hierosebastus, that is, Xanthicus or Anthesterion.
But, looking at the context, we may well question whether
Se^aoTTos here is the name of a month at all.
Probably the Smyrnaean
months would correspond generally with tlie
Ephesian, though here
and there there might be a different name. Thus the third month
would probably retain the old Ionian name Apaturion, since we are
told that the Ephesians and Colophonians
'alone of the lonians do
not observe the Apaturia' (Herod, i. 147). (7) The Delian list
has the advantage of being complete {Bull, de Corresp. Hcllen. v.
p. 25 sq). Though not very closely allied,
comparison.
it affords an instructive
I suppose then that, when the solar calendar was introduced, the
^Macedonian names of the months were adopted generally in Proconsular
Asia, as well as in other districts of Asia Minor. As Ephesus was
the capital of Proconsular Asia, and the authoritative documents were
issued thence, the general nomenclature adopted for the province got
the name of 'Ephesian' which it has in the Florentine Hemerology.
At the same time the great cities, such as Ephesus and Smyrna, retained,
at all events for municipal and religious purposes, the old Ionian names
of the months, introducing here and there a change in compliment to
the reigning powers, such as Neocsesareon for Eoedromion, the opening
month in the year. The nomenclature, which the Florentine Hemerology
terms ' Asiatic ',
can never have prevailed in the province generally.
It must have been confined to some particular city or neighbourhood
of '
Asia', and is perhaps only one type of several nomenclatures, more or
less
province.
various, which might be found within the limits of the proconsular
[Since the appearance of my first edition, my attention has been
called by Mommsen to a Pergamene inscription, recently discovered
and not yet (I believe) pubUshed, which illustrates this Epheso-Asiatic
Calendar in several points.
This distinguished scholar writes as follows ;
'It is a base written on all four faces and dedicated to Hadrian
(year not determinable) by the vfj-vi^Bol
Oeov ^e/Sao-Tov koI ^eas
'Pc(j/A79.
The frontispiece has the dedication and the names of the
members of the sacred choir. On the other three sides are indicated