Aba (1-4)

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Aba

1a) Aba (τὰ Ἄβα), concluded as being a name for a business in Lydia in Asia Minor from an inscription from Baharlár. Bursch links the ruins in Dawaslý just north-east of Apollonos Hieron to Aba (Aus Lydien 122f. 210ff.). The name perhaps comes from the linguistic heritage of Asia Minor.

[Bürchner.]

1) A city in Caria? Herodian in Steph. Byz.; not evidenced by coins, as had previously been believed. Head HN 516. Babelon Rev. Ét. Gr. I 88.

[Hirschfeld.]

2) The name of a city in Phokis, situated on the banks of the river Kephisos (= Ἄβαι). <40> Aristotle in Strabon X 445. Steph. Byz. see Ἄβαι. cf. M. Beaudouin Bull. Hell. V 449. Preller-Robert Griech. Myth. I 311 (Artemiscultus). v. Wilamowitz Eurip. Herakles II 91. S. Abai.

3) A nymph with whom Poseidon begot Ergiskos, the eponymous hero of the Thracian city Ergiske: Harpokr. s. Ἐργίσκη. Et. M. 369, 54. cf. Aischines III 82. Demosth. VII 37. XVIII 27. Aristotle (Strab. X 445) traces the origins of the Abantes from Thrace, who are clearly connected with the name of the Thracian nymph. <50> The migration of the name can be explained from the historically indisputable movement of the Thracian people to the south.

4) Daughter of Zenophanes, who was ruling in Olba at the time of Antonius: Strab. XIV 672.

[Toepffer.]