Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . he rest of the excava-tion is tolerably regular, in this portion it is impededby large masses of rock lying across it at intervals:which would imply either that it was never com-pleted, or that it was finished in this part withmasonry, which may have been carried ofl forbuilding purposes. It is, j)erhaps, in this part thatthe stairs mentioned by Polybius may have beensituated, in order to form a communication with thesea. There can be no doubt whatever that this ex-cavation is the passage mentioned by him as the solocornnuuiicalion between the city and
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . he rest of the excava-tion is tolerably regular, in this portion it is impededby large masses of rock lying across it at intervals:which would imply either that it was never com-pleted, or that it was finished in this part withmasonry, which may have been carried ofl forbuilding purposes. It is, j)erhaps, in this part thatthe stairs mentioned by Polybius may have beensituated, in order to form a communication with thesea. There can be no doubt whatever that this ex-cavation is the passage mentioned by him as the solocornnuuiicalion between the city and the sea ; andit is strange that any question should have arisenconcerning its design. A rougli plan of the site isgiven by Pococke (p. 183); but a much mora 954 SELEUCEIA. carefully executed plan, with drawings .and sectionsof the tunnels, &c., has lately been published by Cap-tain Allen, who surveyed the site of the harbour, butnot of the town, in 1850. {The Dead Sea. (f-c. Mapat end of vol. i., and vol. ii. pp. 208—230.) [G. COIN OF SELEUCEIA IN SYRIA. SELEUCEIA or SELEUCIA (SeXev/ceio). town near the northern frontier of Pisidia,surnamed Sidera (ji 2i57;pa, Ptol. v. 5. § 4; 673), probably on account of iron-works in itsvicinity. There are some coins of this place withthe image of the Asiatic divinity Men, who was wor-shipped at Antioch, and bearing the )!, which might lead to the idea thatthe place was restored by the emperor Claudius.(Sestini, Mon. Vet. p. 96.) Its site is now occupiedby the town of Ejerdir. 2. A town in Pamphylia between Side and themouth of the river Eurymedon, at a distance of80 stadia from Side, and at some distance from thesea. {Stadiasm. Mar. Mag. § 216.) 3. An important town of Cilicia, in a fertile plainon the western bank of the Calycadnus, a few milesabove its mouth, was founded by Seleucus I., sur-named Nicator. A town or towns, however, hadpreviously existed on the spot under the names ofOl
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