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Valerius Valentinianus, Praeses of Isauria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

A. S. Hall
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Since it was my good fortune to begin working in Anatolia while Seton Lloyd was Director of the Ankara Institute, and to enjoy his friendly encouragement for several years, I am glad to have the opportunity of dedicating this article to him.

In June, 1958, the following inscription was discovered by the writer in Yazdamıköy, one of a group of villages near the ancient site of Isaura (Zengibar Kalesi), which is situated on a mountain crest some 10 km. east of Bozkır and the valley of the Çarşamba Çayı. Large quantities of material from the site have been recorded within these villages since Hamilton first visited the area in 1837. There can, therefore, be little doubt about the provenance of this particular block of limestone, slightly moulded at the top, broken bottom left and to right; H. 0·34, W. 0·93, Th. unknown (buried behind), letters 2·5 cm.

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Research Article
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Anatolian Studies , Volume 22 , December 1972 , pp. 213 - 216
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Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1972

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1 I was accompanied by Bay Ayhan Yalçınkaya of Bozkır. To him, and to the Department of Antiquities of the Turkish Ministry of Education, with whose permission the survey was undertaken, I am deeply grateful.

2 For a description of the situation of Isaura, and an account of its main monuments, see Swoboda, /Keil, /Knoll, , Denkmäler aus Lykaonien, Pamphylien und Isaurien, Prague, 1935, pp. 69–97 and 119–143Google Scholar, with reference to earlier publications.

3 August 12–13, 1837. Hamilton, W. J., Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus and Armenia (2 Vols. London, 1842), Vol. 2, pp. 331–338Google Scholar, with Appendix V, nos. 426–429.

4 For ἡγεμών, ἡγούμενος, and ἡγεμονεύς as translations of Praeses, and as the most common term for governor in the post-Diocletianic provincial arrangements, see the many examples in Robert's, L. study “Epigrammes du Bas-Empire”, Hellenica, Vol. IV (1948), especially “Epigrammes relatives à des Gouverneurs” (pp. 33–114Google Scholar).

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6 CIG., 4437 (Tarsus).

7 Robert, L., Hellenica XI–XII (1960), pp. 24–25Google Scholar. “Le mot ἀνανεωτής, ‘renovateur’… est caractéristique du Bas-Empire” (Hellenica, XIII (1965) p. 232Google Scholar).

8 Quellen zur Geschichte der Stadt Ankara im Altertum, by Bosch, E. (Ankara, 1967), p. 369, no. 306Google Scholar, line 3: … οἶκον τοũ χιμερίου δημοσίου λιγόντα αὐτὸς ἀνανέωσεν … = Domaszewski, A. V., Kleinasien, Inschriften aus (Archäologisch-epigraphische Mitteilungen aus Österreich, Vol. 9 (1885), p. 113 ff.Google Scholar), no. 67.

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11 ILS., 740.

12 For his career, see The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Vol. 1 (1971), p. 662Google Scholar.

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14 id. p. 568, and “Matronianus, Comes Isauriae”, by ProfessorAlföldi, Elizabeth (Phoenix XXVI (1972)Google Scholar, forthcoming). I am grateful to Professor Alföldi for information about this discovery and for a view of her article before publication.

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20 Our knowledge of the early history of Isaura is very limited. Diodorus XVIII, 22 describes how the city was besieged and captured by Perdiccas in 322 B.C., but from his account we can draw no firm conclusions about its constitution.

21 MAMA., VIII, no. 241.

22 Bean, /Mitford, , Journeys in Rough Cilicia, 1964–1968 (Denkschrift of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, no. 102) (1971), p. 223 no. 254Google Scholar (Barabolu).

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25 Swoboda, /Keil, /Knoll, , Denkmäler aus Lykaonien, Pamphylien und Isaurien, Prague, 1935, p. 101, no. 291Google Scholar, with Μουησεων, corrected by MAMA., VIII, no. 66.

26 Hall 1958/74 = 1970/78. The full text will be published elsewhere, with other new material.

27 See the remarks of Miss Barbara Levick on the evidence of prosperity in Fourth Century Antioch, metropolis of Pisidia, , in Roman Colonies in Southern Asia Minor (Oxford, 1967) p. 178Google Scholar.

28 Zosimus, V, 14 f.; Claudian, , In Eutropium, II, 153 ffGoogle Scholar.