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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4507196, member: 99456"]Very interesting coin, and reinforcing of the story of Perseus and the naming/founding of Iconium. Thanks for posting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for posting your example of my coin, and your Septimius also very interesting to see. <a href="https://ifa.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/sites/IfA/EpiAna_pdfs/087-114_labarre.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ifa.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/sites/IfA/EpiAna_pdfs/087-114_labarre.pdf" rel="nofollow">Here</a> is a 2015 review on the location of Parlais, that may interest you, highlighting in detail the epigraphic and archeological evidence. The article has a lot of additional discussion about the history of the colony too. I conclude that the location of Parlais is now fairly well established.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>"L. Robert was the first, in 1938, to show that the town of Parlais was nearby from the village of Barla on the west coast of Lake Eğirdir. The modern name of this village (called also Kocapınar) was therefore directly derived from the ancient toponymy."</i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>"B. Levick (1967-70) proved a little more precise and sought to locate the colony. She locates it on the slopes extending gently to the shore of the lake, on an open territory, about 2 km southeast of the modern village. The site was at the opening of a ravine (“in der Öffnung der Schlucht”) into which the Kocapınar river flowed (Kocapınar Deresi) towards the lake, while above, to the west, stood the village of Lama (Lamaköy)."</i></p><p><br /></p><p>A potential explanation for ambiguous reference in ancient sources:</p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>"Strictly these garrison cities were 'Pisidian,' not 'in Pisidia': they were founded on the Pisidian frontier of the empire, but the Romans expressed themselves with geographical looseness, and the looseness had a political meaning and purpose: Rome did not trouble herself about barbarian geography, but intended to substitute a Roman geography and classification."</i></p><p>- <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Journals/JRS/6/Pisidian_Antioch_in_the_Augustan_Age*.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Journals/JRS/6/Pisidian_Antioch_in_the_Augustan_Age*.html" rel="nofollow">Ramsay (1916)</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4507196, member: 99456"]Very interesting coin, and reinforcing of the story of Perseus and the naming/founding of Iconium. Thanks for posting. Thanks for posting your example of my coin, and your Septimius also very interesting to see. [URL='https://ifa.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/sites/IfA/EpiAna_pdfs/087-114_labarre.pdf']Here[/URL] is a 2015 review on the location of Parlais, that may interest you, highlighting in detail the epigraphic and archeological evidence. The article has a lot of additional discussion about the history of the colony too. I conclude that the location of Parlais is now fairly well established. [I]"L. Robert was the first, in 1938, to show that the town of Parlais was nearby from the village of Barla on the west coast of Lake Eğirdir. The modern name of this village (called also Kocapınar) was therefore directly derived from the ancient toponymy."[/I] [I]"B. Levick (1967-70) proved a little more precise and sought to locate the colony. She locates it on the slopes extending gently to the shore of the lake, on an open territory, about 2 km southeast of the modern village. The site was at the opening of a ravine (“in der Öffnung der Schlucht”) into which the Kocapınar river flowed (Kocapınar Deresi) towards the lake, while above, to the west, stood the village of Lama (Lamaköy)."[/I] A potential explanation for ambiguous reference in ancient sources: [I] "Strictly these garrison cities were 'Pisidian,' not 'in Pisidia': they were founded on the Pisidian frontier of the empire, but the Romans expressed themselves with geographical looseness, and the looseness had a political meaning and purpose: Rome did not trouble herself about barbarian geography, but intended to substitute a Roman geography and classification."[/I] - [URL='http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Journals/JRS/6/Pisidian_Antioch_in_the_Augustan_Age*.html']Ramsay (1916)[/URL][/QUOTE]
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