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Anazarbus1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Michael Gough
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The site of the Cilician city known during the period of the Roman Empire as Caesarea, Caesarea by Anazarbus, or Anazarbus, is some 28 km. south of Kozan in the Turkish province of Seyhan. The place still retains its name as Anavarza, a hamlet built just outside the walls of the ancient city.

The choice of Anazarbus as a subject for research may seem to require some explanation. It was never one of the great cities of antiquity; indeed it is not yet certain that it even existed before the 1st century B.C. It never received more than scant notice from ancient authorities, while modern travellers, hampered by bad communications, a difficult climate, and a lawless population, were unable to spend more than a day or two at the site and consequently could not give more than a general idea of its monuments.

In 1949, as Scholar of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, I had decided to study the Classical architecture of Cilicia, and at the same time to collect information on the many mediaeval castles in the district.

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Anatolian Studies , Volume 2 , December 1952 , pp. 85 - 150
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Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1952

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36 The foundation dates of these two cities are established by the era dates on their coinage. There has been considerable controversy about the site of Irenopolis, and doubts have been expressed about there having been an Eastern Cilician town of that name. Henri Seyrig, “Irenopolis—Neronias—Sepphoris,” Num. Chron., 39–40, 1950, p. 288, n. 9 and Postscript, seems satisfactorily to dispose of such doubts.

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71 My authorities for the Arab and Armenian periods at Anazarbus are unfortunately, but unavoidably, at second-hand. I have made use of Lestrange, G., Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, Gambridge, 1930, pp. 129–131, 140–141Google Scholar; The Cambridge Medieval History; and King, E. H., “A Journey through Armenian Cilicia,” Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, XXIV, 1937, pp. 234–246CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

72 My thanks are due to Dr. D. S. Rice of the London School of Oriental and African Studies who read my squeeze of this inscription.

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110 I am indebted to Mrs. Seton Lloyd for pointing out this fresco, which had never before been noticed or recorded.