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DOI article:Ramsay, William Mitchell: Lycaonia
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narrower Isauria in the Roman Eparchy Isauria. But
the Isaurian pirates of the late Republican times
belonged to the Cilician coasts.
12. Korna is appended with Isauropolis at
the end of Region II. A study of Hierocles’s method
suggests that they were no longer distinct bishoprics
in his time, but were tacked on by him to the list
of bishoprics in Region II, as it stood in his time.
Korna was a bishopric in 381 and 45X, 27) but never
appears in the Notitiae: it had therefore ceased to
be a bishopric before c. A. D. 650.
Ptolemy places Korna S S E from Iconium,
S S W from Barata. His positions are not valuable,
except sometimes as to the relation of towns within
the same group: but even in that case he is often
wrong (whether from corrupt text or original error).
Such as it is, his authority places Korna at the
important site Dinorna, 28) on the road from Lystra
to Nea Isaui-a and Derbe, discovered by Sterrett. It
is on the the last gentle rising-ground, by which the
Isaurian hills sink into the Lycaonian plain on the
NE. As Derbe and the road from Derbe to Lystra
lost importance, Dinorna also suffered; but in tlie
Roman period inscriptions and remains show it to
have been a town of some consequence. One
inscription (Sterrett no. 257) shows that a citizen
married the danghter of a Senator of Isaura, which
is a natural connexion when Korna and Dorla are
near one another; but Sterrett’s inference that Dinorna
was the site of Isaura Nea is unjustifiable.
Korna and Nea Isaura ceased to be distinct
bishoprics about the same time; and the two events
may have been connected so that Korna also was
merged in the great autokephalos bishopric Leonto-
polis-Isaura (Hist. Geogr. p. 343). That was the
fate which Basil Ep. 190 says that he dreaded
for the pixpoTcoXcxstatg rjxo'. pcxpoxcüptatg xoCic, sx
xaXacoö sxtcaxdxcüv h-pövov k^oboca^. In order to
prevent suclr places as Korna from being absorbed
under Isaura, he recommended that, before a new
bishop was appointed for Isaura, officials Tcpocaxdpsvoc
should be nominated for the smaller towns or cities.
We found the grave of one of these officials at
Alkaran (between Korna and Nea Isaura) in 1901
with the inscription p,v7]|J,7js X“P tv Kdvcüvog [Ttpo]caxa-
[psvou].
Gelzer points out that the form Korina is at-
27) Inzos, bishop in 451. The names Indos,
Inzos, Indakos, were common in this district.
tested by Syrian Acta Conc. 381, Byz. Zeitschr. 1903
p. 129.
13. Pyrgoi is proved by the march of Barba-
rossa (Hist. Geogr. p. 346) to be the picturesque
modern town, almost half-way between Bossola and
Laranda (Karaman), called Cassaba („Market“):
the mediaeval walls were well-preserved in 1890.
The town must have been an important one as
early as 850, for Ibn Khordadhbeh places it on
the southern road from Cybistra-Herakleia to Iconium,
under the name Borghouth, which he mentions
elsewhere as a fortress of the Anatolic Theme
(p. 79). See § 40 f.
In one MS of Epiphanii Notitia (Gelzer) the
name of Pyrgoi (or Roina) is stlbstituted for Ilistra
(xöv Xvjaxpcüv A xöv pocvoov rjxoc xöp'YWV B, Gelzer p. 541);
and as the two are less than six miles from one
another it might be concluded that they were united
under one bishop, who was in full styled 6 TXcaxptov
yjxoc nöpytov. But the later Notitiae give both Ilistra
and Pyrgoi: hence we must infer that Pyrgoi rose
to be a separate bishopric about 850—900 (though
the possibility must always remain open that Ilistra
was by error left standing on the lists after it had
ceased really to be a bishopric). See § 14. 15.
A different Pyrgoi, distinguished from Pyrgoi-
Borghouth as Anhydroi, is mentioned by Theophanes
p. 467. In 791 Constantine VI advanced from
Amorion against Tarsus, and turned back from
Pyrgoi; but a comparison with Leo Gramm. p. 197
shows that it must have been near Tarsus (as De
Boor index, s. v. Anhydroi, says). The identi-
fication of Anhydroi Pyrgoi in Hist. Geogr. p. 345 f.
is wrong.
Pyrgos (probably accus. plur.) is given in the
Peutinger Table on the falsely represented road,
Savatra XXIII Pyrgos XX Yconio. Tliis proves
that, on the original authority, the great road
Laodicea - Iconium - Pyrgos-Laranda - Coropissos-Olba-
Corycus was shown; but in the Peutinger Table
Laranda and Olba are omitted, and Pj'rgos is
misplaced.
Pyrgoi therefore, must have existed for a long
time before it rose to be a bishopric distinct from
Ilistra. It must have been a village or small town
on the great road to Laranda from the earliest
time, but was long kept under the bishop of Ilistra.
28) So placed in Hist. Geogr. p. 343 and map
P- 330.
W. M. Ramsay
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narrower Isauria in the Roman Eparchy Isauria. But
the Isaurian pirates of the late Republican times
belonged to the Cilician coasts.
12. Korna is appended with Isauropolis at
the end of Region II. A study of Hierocles’s method
suggests that they were no longer distinct bishoprics
in his time, but were tacked on by him to the list
of bishoprics in Region II, as it stood in his time.
Korna was a bishopric in 381 and 45X, 27) but never
appears in the Notitiae: it had therefore ceased to
be a bishopric before c. A. D. 650.
Ptolemy places Korna S S E from Iconium,
S S W from Barata. His positions are not valuable,
except sometimes as to the relation of towns within
the same group: but even in that case he is often
wrong (whether from corrupt text or original error).
Such as it is, his authority places Korna at the
important site Dinorna, 28) on the road from Lystra
to Nea Isaui-a and Derbe, discovered by Sterrett. It
is on the the last gentle rising-ground, by which the
Isaurian hills sink into the Lycaonian plain on the
NE. As Derbe and the road from Derbe to Lystra
lost importance, Dinorna also suffered; but in tlie
Roman period inscriptions and remains show it to
have been a town of some consequence. One
inscription (Sterrett no. 257) shows that a citizen
married the danghter of a Senator of Isaura, which
is a natural connexion when Korna and Dorla are
near one another; but Sterrett’s inference that Dinorna
was the site of Isaura Nea is unjustifiable.
Korna and Nea Isaura ceased to be distinct
bishoprics about the same time; and the two events
may have been connected so that Korna also was
merged in the great autokephalos bishopric Leonto-
polis-Isaura (Hist. Geogr. p. 343). That was the
fate which Basil Ep. 190 says that he dreaded
for the pixpoTcoXcxstatg rjxo'. pcxpoxcüptatg xoCic, sx
xaXacoö sxtcaxdxcüv h-pövov k^oboca^. In order to
prevent suclr places as Korna from being absorbed
under Isaura, he recommended that, before a new
bishop was appointed for Isaura, officials Tcpocaxdpsvoc
should be nominated for the smaller towns or cities.
We found the grave of one of these officials at
Alkaran (between Korna and Nea Isaura) in 1901
with the inscription p,v7]|J,7js X“P tv Kdvcüvog [Ttpo]caxa-
[psvou].
Gelzer points out that the form Korina is at-
27) Inzos, bishop in 451. The names Indos,
Inzos, Indakos, were common in this district.
tested by Syrian Acta Conc. 381, Byz. Zeitschr. 1903
p. 129.
13. Pyrgoi is proved by the march of Barba-
rossa (Hist. Geogr. p. 346) to be the picturesque
modern town, almost half-way between Bossola and
Laranda (Karaman), called Cassaba („Market“):
the mediaeval walls were well-preserved in 1890.
The town must have been an important one as
early as 850, for Ibn Khordadhbeh places it on
the southern road from Cybistra-Herakleia to Iconium,
under the name Borghouth, which he mentions
elsewhere as a fortress of the Anatolic Theme
(p. 79). See § 40 f.
In one MS of Epiphanii Notitia (Gelzer) the
name of Pyrgoi (or Roina) is stlbstituted for Ilistra
(xöv Xvjaxpcüv A xöv pocvoov rjxoc xöp'YWV B, Gelzer p. 541);
and as the two are less than six miles from one
another it might be concluded that they were united
under one bishop, who was in full styled 6 TXcaxptov
yjxoc nöpytov. But the later Notitiae give both Ilistra
and Pyrgoi: hence we must infer that Pyrgoi rose
to be a separate bishopric about 850—900 (though
the possibility must always remain open that Ilistra
was by error left standing on the lists after it had
ceased really to be a bishopric). See § 14. 15.
A different Pyrgoi, distinguished from Pyrgoi-
Borghouth as Anhydroi, is mentioned by Theophanes
p. 467. In 791 Constantine VI advanced from
Amorion against Tarsus, and turned back from
Pyrgoi; but a comparison with Leo Gramm. p. 197
shows that it must have been near Tarsus (as De
Boor index, s. v. Anhydroi, says). The identi-
fication of Anhydroi Pyrgoi in Hist. Geogr. p. 345 f.
is wrong.
Pyrgos (probably accus. plur.) is given in the
Peutinger Table on the falsely represented road,
Savatra XXIII Pyrgos XX Yconio. Tliis proves
that, on the original authority, the great road
Laodicea - Iconium - Pyrgos-Laranda - Coropissos-Olba-
Corycus was shown; but in the Peutinger Table
Laranda and Olba are omitted, and Pj'rgos is
misplaced.
Pyrgoi therefore, must have existed for a long
time before it rose to be a bishopric distinct from
Ilistra. It must have been a village or small town
on the great road to Laranda from the earliest
time, but was long kept under the bishop of Ilistra.
28) So placed in Hist. Geogr. p. 343 and map
P- 330.