Parerga to the Stadiasmus Patarensis (16): The Roads, Settlements and Territories

This article analyzes twenty-six amphora stamps found during the excavations at the ancient city of Kalynda in 2022-2023. Twenty are identified as being of Rhodian origin, five are from Knidos, and one is unidentified. These finds not only contribute to our understanding of the Hellenistic history of the settlement but also provide some new information on the distribution and statistics of stamped amphora handles in southwestern Asia Minor. The quantity of stamped amphora handles found in Kalynda during a brief excavation period suggests that the settlement engaged in commercial relations with neighboring regions in the Hellenistic era. About 85% of the stamps found relate to the 3rd century BC, verifying the locality’s situation on a bustling trade path as backed by epigraphic documents and literary sources. These connections indicate an important relationship between Kalynda and the Ptolemaic administration.

Hellenistic Amphora Stamps from Kalynda

DÜNDAR

2023

A New Milestone from Cibyra

ARSLAN,

ÖZÜDOĞRU,

TÜNER ÖNEN

2023

The article discussed here deals with a milestone whose location is unknown, but which is understood to have been erected 1.5 km away from the city center of Cibyra, based on the two inscriptions it bears. The milestone in question has two inscriptions indicating two different uses. Both inscriptions are written in Ancient Greek. While the first inscription dates to the Severan Period (AD 198-209), the latter belongs to the First Tetrarchy Period (AD 293-305). Both inscriptions give the city of Cibyra as caput viae and record the same distance. Thus, it is determined that the same milestone is reused approximately hundred years. In the introduction of the article, the routes related to Cibyra and the milestones that give Cibyra as caput viae are also discussed. In both uses, the milestone in question refers to repair and regulation works rather than the construction of a new road. This situation can be associated with the eastern campaigns during the Severan Period and the reconstruction efforts carried out during the Diocletian Era.

Parerga to the Stadiasmus Patarensis (17): A Correction to the Course of the Road between Xanthos and Neisa

Onur¹

2016

In the Stadiasmus Patarensis (SP) the road from Xanthos to Neisa (R 6) is given as ἀπὸ Ξάνθου [εἰς Νεῖσα] ϋ στάδια ϋ ροϛʹ (176 stadia = ca. 32-33 km) in line 14 of face B. The air distance between two cities is 28-29 km, meaning that, if the distance of 176 stadia on the block is correct, the road should lead as direct as possible to accord with the SP. But, our research of 2009-2010 showed that this road led through Çavdır, Çayköy, Üzümlü (Margaz), İslamlar (Bodamya), near Lapaz, the Alacaışık Pass by Köybaşı/Gölbaşı, passing in western vicinity of İkizce, Akarkuyu, Lengüme (Çamlıova) and Sütleğen (see below Fig. 1), 1 covering a distance of no less than ca. 40 km (ca. 215/6 stadia). This is a much longer distance than that recorded by the SP, Şahin estimated this difference as 10,5 km, 2 as shown in the map below (Fig. 1). These extra lengths measured to Xanthos, both from Sütleğen and Lengüme, were explained as due to the possible different courses of the modern road on the mountainous sections, which extended the length of these routes. The milestone from Lengüme, which probably dates from no earlier than the Severan Period and is today lost, also played an important role on this consideration, inasmuch as it was erected on the southwestern point of Lengüme, and records 16 mp (= ca. 23/24 km) from its destination, which was repeatedly and confidently asserted to be Xanthos. 3 This distance, with an extra distance of 2-3 km, seems to correspond roughly to the actual length of ca. 25-26 km between the find spot of this milestone and Xanthos, following a route through Köybaşı. In any case, the length between Xanthos and Neisa in the SP and the length of the course proposed by Şahin and later adopted by Takmer and Oktan, which mostly corresponds with the modern road between Kınık and Sütleğen, diverge from each other. In