Cyzicus

Cyzicus Synopsis

Excerpt from Cyzicus: Being Some Account of the History and Antiquities, of That City, and of the District Adjacent, to It, With the Towns of Apollonia Ad Rhyndacum, Miletupolis, Hadrianutherae, Priapus, Zeleia, Etc

The site, considered as a whole, is indeed so large and land so costly as to unfit it for private excavation, though certain areas, e.g. The theatre region within the walls and the so-called agora of the temple of Hadrian without, are attractive. It is greatly to be hoped that the work will in the end be systematic ally undertaken by one of the archaeological schools. Whichever of them it may be, our own can fairly claim to have contributed much pioneer work, being responsible for the only reliable archaeological map of the site, as also to a large extent for the present publication.

From future excavation we may reasonably hope to fill some of the lacunae in the history of Cyzicus; at present records are sadly deficient, especially during the Hellenistic period when Cyzicene prosperity seems to have reached its climax: this, too, in spite of a vast increase in epigraphical material. From the excavator's point Of View it is a hopeful sign that the two tentative excavations are responsible for so large a pro portion of the important Cyzicene inscriptions of late years.

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