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Roman Roads and Milestones of Galatia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

I. W. Macpherson
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The recent discovery of a number of new milestones in Galatia proper prompts a re-examination of the road system of that area, important as it was as a centre of communications from early times. The importance of Ancyra in particular as a road-junction is well illustrated by a large number of milestones dating to the first and second centuries A.D.; perhaps the rapid development of that city at this time is to be attributed in part to a realisation of its strategic importance.

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Anatolian Studies , Volume 4 , December 1954 , pp. 111 - 120
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Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1954

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page 111 note 1 In the summer of 1953, when I was travelling as a Treasury student. I must record my thanks to Professor W. M. Calder who kindly put at my disposal a number of milestones which he recorded in this area in 1910, and also read this article in typescript; to Mr. Seton Lloyd, the Director of the Institute at Ankara, which was my base of operations; and to Dr. A. Furness who kindly drew the sketch-map (Fig. 1). The Turkish Department of Antiquities has always been helpful to my work. In view of the similarity of the material, only a selection of the stones has been illustrated.

page 111 note 2 Procop., de Aedif., V, 4, 1Google Scholar; Anderson, in JHS., XIX (1899), 65 f.Google Scholar, gives a sketch-plan and full description of the bridge.

page 112 note 1 As is attested by the milestones published in JOAI., XXX (1937)Google Scholar, Beibl. 21, no. 21; CIL., III, 314Google Scholar = Arch. Jahrb., XLVII (1932)Google Scholar, Arch. Anz., 260 = Ann. Ep., 1932, 49Google Scholar; CIL., III, 6058 = 6900 (the attribution of these is however doubtful): CIL., III, 1418461, and no. (3) in my text.

page 112 note 2 Perrot, , Exploration de la Calatie, 151 f.Google Scholar

page 112 note 3 CIL., III, 318Google Scholar = ILS 263.

page 112 note 4 For a detailed discussion of this road, see JHS., XIX (1899), 111 ffGoogle Scholar.

page 112 note 5 See JHS., l.c., 113 f.

page 112 note 6 JHS., l.c., 103.

page 112 note 7 JHS., l.c., 53 for the “Pilgrims' Road”.

page 113 note 1 de Busbecq, Ogier: Turkish Letters, tr. Forster, E. S. (Oxford, 1927), p. 51Google Scholar.

page 113 note 2 cf. CIL., III, 312, 318Google Scholar, 1418448.

page 113 note 3 To the list of milestones cited by Magie, , Roman Rule in Asia Minor, pp. 1308 ff.Google Scholar, should be added CIL., III, 13645Google Scholar (see no. 18 below), 13646, and a milestone from Kalabağ, recorded by Bittel, , Année Epigraphique, 1946, no. 178Google Scholar.