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 AHAKNA. Iillwn if fail Tnks, uHl'a ffwjmn iSttx^utSa wa ind tfap AgJTBmemix on &iendlj lentu with HSeron ^tf J SjiiLuae, fix which thej were mrmrded bj Ibt {ill rf half the tsriloTj that hai beknged to ^miil (Diod. nii. Eic Hoacfa. pp. 495, 4990 tUff the Bcm^ govemiiwiit Chcy cootijinod to be ( loaiiihu^ and imltfaf eommuiuty, and Cicero ^■b rf A^jriom H gpc of the mwt oxuidenMe adn rf Sidl;. Its mallh wu chie£j' derived frran tkr firtiBi]' of it* (cnitmy in com : which preriona k lb amiml gf Vcme fonnd empliTnient for 350 bum (ustise*). a Dumber diininiihed b; the ei- Ktka t^hi^ prartorBfaip to no m«« than BO. {Cif:. riTT, iii. 18. S7— 31, 51, 53.) Fivm this period n htrc tittle tuithir Dotice rf it, in ancient times, bticlaaed bj Plin; anuag Iho "populiitipeiidiiuii'' rfftjlj.aiid the name is found bath in Ptolani; and the ItinenneB. In the middle agea it berame cele- hiM fcr a dinnh of St. Fhifip with a miraculoai litw, fhm Kbenec tba modeni nanio rt the town is faind. It bacame in amseqacDce a gnat nioit of pIpiD Eraii >a {Uti cf the iaiand, and is still a ooBdmUe pfawc, with the title of a cic^ and abon Birw jnK^fnt. (Plin.iii.S.U;PIol.iii.4.gl3: FiaL A Stb. SiaJ. T<d. i. p. 435; Ortolani, Du. Cdiyr. deOi Sic^iM, p. 111.) the histonan Kodcnu Scnlni was a tutiTe ti ifjiinn, and ha* preserred to as serem] particniaTs «■■<<■ nji»|F his natiTe town. Numerous memofials ■n {msTTd Ihsv of the pretended Tint of Ho- nda: the impnadon of the feet (^ his oiea WIS still tum in the nek, and a Ulie or pool fonr slfujia in Iw Unu A TaDcna or sacred groTs in the niigh- boarhead of the dtj was consccnled lo GsTimes, ind anether to lolani, which was an object of peculiar Tfwntim: ind ■nnnal games and sacrificei were cddnlBl in hoBBT both cf that hen and tf He- ndeiUmadf. (IMod. i. 4,iT. 24.) At a later period 'nmJfca waa the chief bene&ctor of the dtj, where hi ta>tnicud several tcmpla, a Boulenlerion ind Agcn, as wdl as a thntn which Djodoms tells as WM the finsst in all Scilf, after that of Syiacose, (Id. xtL 83.) Scaied J any rcnuuns of thoe bnild- mp an mw tisibk, the onlj mnjgn cf antiqnilf hang 1 few andc&ncd fragments of mssomy. The iBBcd caKle on tb« flunmit of the bin, UtribDted bf smne wriun to the Greeks, is a work of the Saracens B the tenth centnrj. (Amico, ad FaalL p. 440; La. Ttifefr. Sit Td. i. p. 38.) [E. H. B.] ALABASTKITES. SI inge which separates ITf^ier Eg^ from the Rrd Sra. It was in the parallel rfThebei, and S. of the modsrn Aoanr (Philolenu), in lat. 39^. The dis- trict occnixed bj the Iclh}^phagi commenced a little to the north of the headlond of Aias. [W. B. D.] ALABANDA (i> 'AXitatta, tA 'AAiUorfa : Eth. 'AAaSavSiiif, Alabandeus, Alsbandensis, Alabtnde- nna : A<^. AJabandiens), a city of Caria, was litu- Bted 160 stadia & of Tralles, and was eepanUed frosi the plain of Hjlasa i>7 a DMmiliiia tract. SCnbo describes it as IjiDg at the foot of ti He aHbrds no di Btiai,'which is atterly unknown. Clni aha writen hare eapposed it to be the Ada. bat this seems scarcclj recondlable nilh the dramstauH of the ounpaign. (Clnvcr. Itat p. 636.) [E. H. B.] AIAS or AEAS (A&J tpot, Ptol. i'. 5. g 1 ho. •! 39. B. 33), was a headland of the limratone «•), ' ler as to present the appcaranco o imiers on. The modeni site is aouoani; oui AraA Hiud, en a large branch (^ the Hasandei, now called the TMna, which jdns that riier on the S, bank, is supposed by Leake to represent Alaband* ; and the nature of the gnrnnd conespraids well enough with Strabo's descriplion. The Tthina may probabl)' be the Marsyas of Herodottu (t. IIB). re are the remains of a theatre and many other ilngj m this site; hnt very few inscriptions. | landa was noted for the Inxnrions habits of P^ ddieDS. Under the Roman empire it was seat of a Conventiu Joridicns m conrt house, one of the moat floarishlng towns of the pro- vince of Asia. A ttoae called " lajus AEabandidLs,** iighbourhood, was fuuble (Pliu. md used fw making glauj and for . glaiing vessels.' C^t^liL flTVi-^ IZi^-^ flW-X* XV II . gtephanns menSims twT dties of the name of Alabinda in Caria, but it does not appear that any nther writer mentions two. Herodotus, however (viL 195), speaks of Alabanda in Caria (tw ir t^ Kapfii), which is the Akbanda of Strabo. The words of description added by Herodotos seem to imply that there was another city of the name ; and in fact he speaks, in another {sssage (viii. 136), of Alabanda, a laige c^ty of Fhrygia. This Alahanda of Fhrygia cannot be the town on the Tthina, for Phrygia never eitended so &r as there. [G. L.] ALABASTHA or ALABASTKON [■AXM-a^pi, 'AXiSaaTpar irrfXii, Ptol. ir. 5. § SB; Plin. T. 9. s. 1 1, luvii. B. B. 32), a dty cf Egjpt, whose eite ia diderently stated by Pliny and Ptolemy. Pliny plscea it in Upper Egypt ; Itolemy in the Heptsnomis. It would accordingly be dther south or north of the Hons Alabastrites. It was donbtless comected with the alabaster qnanies of that mountain. If Ala- bastia stood in the Heptannnis, it was an iiiland town, connected with the Kile by one of the many roads which pervade the region between that river and the Arabian bills. [W. B. D] ALABASTBITES MONS CAXotwrrfitir Spot, Ptol. iv. 5. § 27), formed a portion of the limestone iwka which nm weetwaid from the Arabian Mils into Upper and Middle Egypt. This ufjaud ridge or spnr w» lo the out OC the city (rf Uermqnlb Uagna, in hit. 37^, and gave ita name to the town of Alabastn. It contwied ta^e qnnrriea of the beautifnlly veined and white alabaster which the Egyptians Bo largely employed for thar sarTojJiagi and other worlis of art. The grottoes in this ridge are by some writers supposed to occnpy the nte of the dty Alsbastra (see preceding article), but this wasprobaMyfurtherfromthemoanlain. Theywere frstvisitedb<rSirGardBerWilkiDsoninl834. The grolloea of Koam-d-Ahmar arc believed lo be the the names of some of the earliest Egyptian kings, but are inferior in size and splendour lo the aunilar ■./:. '.i' -■: