Abstract
In my recent publication of the epigraphical evidence for the cult of the god Men, I made a couple of topographical equations on which further comment is necessary. One of these (Kula/Koloe) has been generally abandoned in recent scholarship, but I think that it is defensible, and would like to take this opportunity to defend it. The other (Ayazviran/Koresa), I would like to withdraw, in favour of proposing the possible equation Köres/Koresa.Following an old tradition, based on the principle of survival of proper names, I stated that the present day town of Kula was called Koloe in antiquity. Koloe was a widespread place-name in Greco-Roman Lydia. The name is apparently of non-Greek origin, and whatever it may have meant, it seems to have been very much suited to place-names. Three places in Lydia are definitely known to have borne the name in antiquity: a lake, a polis, and a katoikia. At some Koloe in Lydia, Attalus I of Pergamum defeated Antiochus Hierax in 229/8 B.C.
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