Note 385 — Chapter VI · SOME REMARKS ON THE COMPARATIVE GEOGRAPHY OF THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN PARTS OF ASIA MINOR.
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Strabo, p. 629, 630. Chandler found at the theatre the beginning of an encomium of Hierapolis:
Ἀσίδος εὐρείης προφερέστατον οὖδας ἁπάντων Χαίροις Χρυσόπολι Ἱεράπολι πότνια νυμφῶν Νάμασιν ἀγλαΐησι κεκασμένη....
And Smith was the first to copy an inscription mentioning a company of dyers:
Τοῦτο τὸ ἥρωον στεφανοῖ ἡ ἐργασία τῶν βαφέων.
The latter illustrates Strabo, who tells us the waters of Hierapolis were famous for dyeing.