Interconnectivity in the Mediterranean and Pontic World
during the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
In Memory of Professor Heinz Heinen
PONTICA ET MEDITERRANEA
Vol. III
Editorial Board:
Victor Cojocaru (editor-in-chief)
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Interconnectivity in the Mediterranean
and Pontic World during the Hellenistic
and Roman Periods
Editors:
Victor Cojocaru, Altay Coşkun, Mădălina Dana
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Contents – Inhalt – Table des matières
Preface
Note on Abbreviations
Contributors
9
17
19
Altay Coşkun
Interconnectivity – In honorem & in memoriam Heinz Heinen (1941–2013)
With a Complete Bibliography of His Scholarly Publications
25
Victor Cojocaru
Die Beziehungen der nordpontischen Griechen zu den außerpontischen
Regionen und Dynastien, einschließlich der römischen Hegemonialmacht:
Historiographische Übersicht
73
PoNt I CA & M I CR o‑A S I At I C A
Alexandru Avram
La mer Noire et la Méditerranée: quelques aspects concernant la mobilité
des personnes
99
Mădălina Dana
D’Héraclée à trapézonte: cités pontiques ou micrasiatiques?
133
Bülent Öztürk
Some observations on tianoi Abroad and the External Relations of tieion
/ tios (Eastern Bithynia)
155
Adrian Robu
Byzance et Chalcédoine à l’époque hellénistique: entre alliances et rivalités 187
hibaut Castelli
L’interconnexion des réseaux économiques: les échanges entre le nord‑
ouest du Pont‑Euxin et Rhodes à l’époque hellénistique
207
Sergej Ušakov, Sergej Bočarov
Chersonesos taurike und die Ägäis im 5.–3. Jahrhundert v. Chr.: Neue
archäologische Fundkomplexe
229
Florina Panait Bîrzescu
Wandering Cult Images between the Aegean and the Black Sea Cities in
Hellenistic and Roman times: from Dionysos Kathegemon to Dionysos
Karpophoros
251
Iulian Bîrzescu
Some Remarks on Hellenistic terracotta offerings in the Western Pontic
Sanctuaries
269
Johannes Nollé
Appearance and Non‑Appearance of Indigenous Cultural Elements on the
Coins of Asia Minor and thrace
281
Costel Chiriac, Lucian Munteanu
trade Connections between Asia Minor and the Western Pontic Area in the
4th Century CE. Some Sphragistic Considerations
299
S E L E u CI D I CA & M I t H RI D At I C A
David Engels
„Je veux être calife à la place du calife“? Überlegungen zur Funktion der
titel „Großkönig“ und „König der Könige“ vom 3. zum 1. Jh. v. Chr.
333
Mustafa H. Sayar
Lysimacheia. Eine hellenistische Hauptstadt zwischen zwei Kontinenten
und zwei Meeren: Ein ort der Interkonnektivität
363
Glenn R. Bugh
Mithridates the Great and the Freedom of the Greeks
383
Marie-Astrid Buelens
A Matter of Names: King Mithridates VI and the oracle of Hystaspes
397
PoNt I CA RoM A NA
Maria Bărbulescu, Livia Buzoianu
L’espace ouest‑pontique sous l’empereur tibère à la lumière d’un décret
inédit découvert en Dobroudja
415
David Braund
Nero’s Amber‑Expedition in Context: Connectivity between the Baltic,
Black Sea, Adriatic and India from Herodotus to the Roman Empire
435
Florian Matei-Popescu
the Horothesia of Dionysopolis and the Integration of the Western Pontic
Greek Cities in the Roman Empire
457
Ligia Ruscu
Becoming Roman? Shifting Identities in the Western Pontic Greek Cities
473
Ioan Piso
Le siège du gouverneur de Mésie inférieure
489
Marta Oller Guzmán
Recherches sur la prosopographie des magistrats d’olbia du Pont d’après
les inscriptions pour Achille Pontarchès
505
Costel Chiriac, Sever-Petru Boțan
Roman Glass Vessels in the Western Pontic Area (1st–3rd Centuries CE).
General Remarks
525
Giorgio Rizzo
Pontus and Rome: trade in the Imperial Period
555
M I CRo‑A S I At I CA RoM A NA
Federico Russo
the Function of the trojan Myth in Early Roman Expansionism in Greece
and Asia Minor
581
Hale Güney
the Economic Activities of Roman Nicomedia and Connectivity between
the Propontic and the Pontic World
605
Michael A. Speidel
Connecting Cappadocia. the Contribution of the Roman Imperial Army
625
Filiz Dönmez-Öztürk (†)
Erste Ergebnisse epigraphischer Feldforschungen in Bithynien (Göynük
und Mudurnu)
641
Indices
663
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of the Roman Imperial Army
Michael A. Speidel
ince globalisation studies have found their way into the ields of Archae‑
ology and Ancient History, and particularly since Peregrine Horden’s
and Nicholas Purcell’s ‘Corrupting Sea’, connectivity in the Ancient World
and closely related subjects have become increasingly popular objects of
research.1 this welcome development also serves to remind us of the fun‑
damental fact that, particularly since the Bronze Age, the ancient world
consisted of several overlapping and interwoven networks, which, despite
continuous change, together made up one interconnected ancient world
that can be said to have stretched, at times, from the British Isles to China.
In the opinion of Horden and Purcell, connectivity should be understood
as “the various ways in which micro‑regions cohere, both internally and
also one with another – in aggregates that may range in size from small
clusters to something approaching the entire Mediterranean”.2 It has also
been pointed out, however, that it is “hard to make any speciic claims
about what ‘connectivity’ precisely entails – beyond the enormous range
of phenomena it actually covers”.3 The speciic implications of connectiv‑
ity therefore did not arise simply because interconnections existed. More
relevant, it seems, was one’s relative position within a given network, and,
indeed, the very nature of that speciic network.
this is surely also true in the case of Cappadocia, a country in Asia Minor
that lies between the Pontic Mountain range (or the Black Sea, according
to Strabo) in the North and the taurus Mountains in the South, with the
Euphrates as its eastern border, and the Galatian steppe and Paphlago‑
nia in the West.4 In many parts, Cappadocia was fertile. Horse breeding,
sheep and catle, the cultivation of grain, fruit trees and even wine, as well
as mining, silver in particular were among the main sources of the coun‑
S
Horden – Purcell 2000.
Horden – Purcell 2000: 123.
3
Algazi 2005: 242.
4
Str. 12.1.1.
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try’s prosperity.5 In very general terms, this rugged highland, by coming
irst under Hellenistic and then Roman rule, passed from a network (or
rather: set of networks) gravitating around a centre in the East into one
irmly centred in the West. For the earlier political, economic, administra‑
tive, cultural and military networks of Cappadocia focussed on Southern
Mesopotamia and the Iranian plateau, whereas the new networks tied the
country into the (eastern) Mediterranean world. In its new western seting
Cappadocia eventually moved into a peripheral position, for it now lay on
the fringes of the Roman Empire. This peripheral position, to a signiicant
degree, shaped Cappadocia’s development over the following centuries,
and the Roman army played a major role in this process.
Long before Cappadocia was transformed into a Roman province in
17 CE, it permanently joined its new Roman framework as a dependent
kingdom. As is well‑known, Cappadocia played an important role in the
wars against Mithidates VI, and Pompey in 61 BCE oicially included the
country among those he had defeated during his command in the East.6
the direct consequences of this early stage of integration included, for
instance, Pompey’s addition to Cappadocia of parts of Lycaonia as well
as Sophene, and his establishment of an eleventh Cappadocian satrapy.
Julius Caesar, in 47 BCE, had the monarchs in the region promise: “to
watch over and guard the (Roman) province (of Syria)”.7 Cappadocia
then evidently held a irm position within Rome’s political and strategic
interests.
Socially and economically, however, only very litle seems to have
changed at this stage. A king still ruled the country in dynastic succession.
According to Strabo, leading aristocrats held an unusually strong position
in Cappadocia and were, together with the king and the temple‑states,
the owners of most of the country’s land. Moreover, it seems that a great
many Cappadocians were legally dependent from the king, the aristo‑
cratic families or the temples. Cities, that is Greek‑style poleis, there were
very few. Strabo counted only two that might have compared to the stan‑
dards of western Asia Minor: tyana and Mazaka/Caesarea.8 In another
passage, however, he also called Kybistra and even Komana a polis, and
there may have been one or two more, such as the city of Archelais, which
Str. 11.13.8; 12.2.1f.; 12.2.9f. Cf. also Plin. Nat. 34.14.41. Flor. 3.12.4. Ath. Deip. 3.112c and
113a‑b. See e.g. Gwatkin 1930: 21f.; Teja 1980: 1092–1102; Marek 2010: esp. 498, 500, 504,
506, 511.
6
Plin. Nat. 7.26.98. Plu. Pomp. 45.
7
Str. 12.1.4; 12.2.1. B.Alex. 65: reges, tyrannos, dynastas provinciae initimos, qui omnes ad eum
concurrerant, receptos in idem condicionibus impositis provinciae tuendae ac defendendae dimitit
et sibi et populo Romano amicissimos. For these and the following developments see Speidel
2009a: 581–594; Marek 2010: esp. 363–388 and 401–422.
8
Str. 1.2.7.
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was given the status of a polis by Cappadocia’s last king only a few years
before his demise in 17 CE.9 the emperor Claudius upgraded Archelais to
the only Roman colony in the country for many decades to come. Cap‑
padocia, thus, remained poorly urbanised until Late Antiquity. the main
forms of setlement were villages and burgs. The lack of a wide spread
of urban culture was enormously consequential. It was also, no doubt, a
main reason for the extremely small number of only around 850 Greek
and Latin inscriptions on stone presently known from Cappadocia, which
is even signiicantly less than those that have come to light in Roman Brit‑
ain (i.e. around 2’900 inscriptions on stone). However, we must also keep
in mind that archaeological research and epigraphic surveys in Cappado‑
cia have not even remotely reached the intensity known in most Western
provinces. therefore, many aspects of Cappadocian history remain in the
dark.
It is certain, however, that not even the early ties and low of informa‑
tion between Cappadocia and the centre of Roman imperial power were
few and far between.10 thus, tiberius took on the defence of king Arche‑
laus in Spain, when local rivals of the late Hellenistic dynast accused
their king.11 During a period in which Archelaus was (allegedly) in ill
health, Augustus had him temporarily replaced by a Roman procurator,
who secured the king’s rule.12 Finally, Archelaus vastly expanded his
dominion during the many decades of his reign. In the end, it included,
apart from Cappadocia, the kingdoms of Pontus and Armenia Minor, as
well as large parts of Cilicia, while his grandson tigranes ruled Arme‑
nia. In a very physical sense, therefore, the kingdom of Cappadocia,
for a few years during the end of Archelaus’ reign, actually connected
the Black Sea with the Mediterranean. Also, Archelaus was personally
very well connected with the dynastic networks of Asia Minor and the
Near East.13 Augustus counted Archelaus among his close and trusted
friends, and he surely also included Cappadocia among the membra
partesque imperii.14 These admitedly cursory and summarizing remarks
show that Cappadocia was, in quite a number of respects, already irmly
integrated within the networks of the Roman world when tiberius ter‑
minated royal rule in 17 CE, and, at the same time, that Rome was well
informed, through many channels, of all Cappadocian maters of stra‑
tegic interest.
Str. 12.2.3. Teja 1980: 1105–1108.
See esp. Speidel 2009a: 582–585 for what follows.
11
Suet. Tib. 8. D.C. 57.17.3f. Levick 1999: 20.
12
D.C. 57.17.4f.; Suet. Aug. 48.
13
Cf. Sullivan 1980.
14
Suet. Aug. 48; cf. also 60. Str. 6.4.2; 16.1.28; 17.3.25. tac. Ann. 4.5.
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Nevertheless, when tiberius terminated the reign of Archelaus in 17 CE
and turned Cappadocia into a Roman province, the country entered a new
phase of increased connectivity with the Mediterranean.15 this transition
entailed, above all, political, administrative, iscal, economic and military
changes. In terms of physical power and Roman personnel, the Roman
army caused the most visible changes. At the top of the provincial military
hierarchy stood the commander of the Roman army in Cappadocia. the
question, exactly which position this Roman oicial held, raises the irst
of many conundrums with respect to the Roman army in Cappadocia.16
Evidently, the man locally in command was the provincial governor, for
Roman governors were just as much military leaders as supreme judges
or chief administrators. And as Rome’s leading representative in the prov‑
ince, he was of course a major factor within the networks of power that
connected Cappadocia with Rome.
According to Suetonius and Cassius Dio, a Roman knight governed
Cappadocia before the Flavian period.17 As a man of equestrian rank, this
oicial evidently had no legionary soldiers under his command. His title,
however, is not on record. Yet, it seems likely that he was a praefectus, just
as his colleague in Commagene, which was provincialized in the same year
and under practically the same circumstances.18 Commagene was atached
to the province of Syria, and this seems also to have been the solution,
which Rome found for Cappadocia. For the governor of Syria is on record
for having militarily intervened in Cappadocia, which surely would not
have been possible if Cappadocia had been an entirely independent prov‑
ince.19 Moreover, tacitus and Josephus describe the military duties of
the consular Syrian governor during the reigns of tiberius and Claudius
as reaching as far North as Iberia and Albania in the Caucasus region.
According to Josephus, as many as 3000 legionary soldiers from the Syr‑
ian army garrisoned the eastern shores of the Black Sea during the reign of
Nero.20 thus, the new Roman army in Cappadocia in the period between
17 and 70 CE was part of an enormous military network that comprised
several dependant allied kingdoms as well as various Roman administra‑
tive units, and that connected the Black Sea with the Mediterranean East
See esp. Speidel 2009a: 584–594 for details and references.
Cf. in particular Speidel 2009a: 589–591.
17
Suet. Ves. 8; D.C. 57.17.7.
18
See Speidel 2009a: 563–580.
19
For the superordinate role in the East of the Roman governor of Syria in this period
cf. tac. Ann. 6.32 and Speidel 2009a: 591–593 with further literature.
20
tac. Ann. 4.5: dehinc initio ab Syriae usque ad lumen Euphraten, quantum ingenti terrarum
sinu ambitur, quatuor legionibus coercita, accolis Hibero Albanoque et aliis regibus qui magnitudine nostra proteguntur adversum externa imperia. J. BJ 2.16.4. Wheeler 2012a, however, high‑
handedly discards Josephus’ statement.
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coast and the Red Sea under the command of the Roman governor in Syr‑
ia.21 Concrete, every day implications of Cappadocia’s troops belonging
to the Syrian army would at least have involved areas of recruitment, the
low of military information, deployment and lines of communication, as
well as basic supplies and pay.22
Yet some scholars suggested that not even regular auxiliary troops of
the Roman army were stationed in Cappadocia when it was turned into a
Roman province.23 this opinion is based mainly on two passages, one in
Josephus and another in tacitus.24 Josephus counted Cappadocia among
the unarmed provinces of the Roman Empire, which (as borne out by
the context of the passage in question) is no more than a reference to the
absence of a garrison of legionary soldiers, whereas tacitus’ ambiguous
description of the Roman troops in Cappadocia as auxilia provincialium has
been taken to refer to irregular units only. Yet, in another passage of his
Annales, tacitus actually spells out that regular cohortes and alae were sta‑
tioned in Cappadocia, which is indeed what might be expected.25 unfor‑
tunately we cannot exactly determine the size of the Roman army in Cap‑
padocia during the Julio‑Claudian period. Inscriptions suggest it to have
comprised several units of Eastern origin, such as ala I Augusta gemina colonorum, ala Augusta Germaniciana, cohors I Bosporanorum, and cohors I Apamenorum. other units were brought in from the West, such as cohorts I and II
Hispanorum.26
It is perhaps surprising to ind that we have no evidence of any Roman
auxiliary units raised from Cappadocians. the case of Judaea reveals what
might otherwise have been expected. For when this kingdom was trans‑
formed into a prefecture in 6 CE, it also received a new Roman garrison of
auxiliary units.27 Regiments of the former royal army were transformed into
Roman auxiliary units and integrated into this new Roman garrison.28 Com‑
Cilicia: tac. Ann. 6.41 and 12.55; Armenia: tac. Ann. 12.45–48. Cf. also the two previous
notes. For the Nabataean kingdom being within the sphere of responsibility of the Roman
governor of Syria see e.g. tac. Ann. 2.57; J. AJ 16.9.1–3 (271–290); 17.3.2 (57); 18.5.1–3 (115–
126) with tac. Ann. 6.32; D.C. 68.14.5. Red Sea: Peripl.M.Rubr. 19 with Speidel (forthcoming).
22
Cf. also Butcher – Ponting 2009 for the production of silver coins.
23
Gwatkin 1930: 36f.; Mitford 1980: 1174; Levick 1999: 141; Mitchell 1993: 63; Heil 1997:
208. Wheeler 2012a: n. 83 bases his argument on tac. Ann. 13.8: additis cohortibus aliisque,
quae Cappadocia hiemabant, claiming that hiemabant “seems unlikely for units regularly sta‑
tioned in the province”. Yet tacitus’ use of the verb hiemare and of the term (castra) hiberna
suggests otherwise: see e.g. tac. Ann. 1.39, and tac. Ann. 1.27; 1.30; 1.38; 2.79. tac. Hist. 1.52;
1.57; 2.80; 3.1; 4.12; 4.15; 4.25; 4.33; 4.39; 4.54; 4.61; 5.22. But cf. Hist. 4.3.
24
J. BJ 2.16.4; tac. Ann. 12.49. Cf. Speidel 2009a: 589f.
25
tac. Ann. 13.8 (see n. 21 above). Cf. also Ann. 15.6 and Hist. 2.6.
26
Speidel 2009a: 620.
27
See Speidel 1992: 224–231.
28
Speidel 1992: 224f.; Millar 1993: 45.
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parable developments probably also took place in Commagene in 17/8 CE,
for at least one ala Commagenorum, and possibly six cohortes Commagenorum
were in existence already by the mid-irst century CE.29 Archelaus, the last
king of Cappadocia, no doubt also had an army with infantry and cavalry
soldiers. However, nothing as yet is known of this army, nor are there any
traces of transformed royal Cappadocian units in the auxilia of the Roman
army anywhere in the Empire. Perhaps tiberius refrained from forcibly rais‑
ing Cappadocian auxiliary units as one of the measures he took to render
Roman rule in Cappadocia more acceptable, just as he did, for instance, by
cuting the former royal tax rates in half.30 Be that as it may, Cappadocians,
at times, were nevertheless recruited into other units of the Roman army, as
was for instance the case during Corbulo’s preparations for Nero’s Parthian
war.31 Routine recruiting paterns, however, remain elusive.
the Neronian war under the command of Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo in
Armenia and against the Parthians, and the ensuing reorganisation of the
north eastern frontier by the Flavian rulers brought along profound changes
in Cappadocia’s military structure and further increased the province’s con‑
nectivity with the Mediterranean basin. In 64 CE the kingdom of Polemon
II, the Pontus Polemoniacus, was integrated into the Roman province of
Cappadocia.32 the former Pontic royal regiments were transformed into
Roman cohorts and a Roman leet was established at Trapezus on the Black
Sea.33 Further naval bases included Sinope and Amastris, as well as forts
on the Colchian coast, which Vespasian later ordered his troops to occu‑
py.34 According to Suetonius, Vespasian also ordered a military upgrade of
Cappadocia “because of the frequent incursions of the barbarians”.35 More
important, however, surely was the lesson from the Neronian war, which
was that Armenia could not be relied upon to fulil the strategic role Rome
had expected it to. At any rate, in 70 CE titus sent a legion to Melitene in
Cappadocia and personally met with a Parthian embassy at Syrian Zeug‑
ma.36 In 72/3 CE royal rule was terminated in neighbouring Commagene
(for the third time) and Armenia Minor, and other small dependent king‑
doms in the region (Chalcidice, Emesa) also disappeared in these years.37 At
P.Heid.Lat. 8 = ChLA XI 501 from 48–52 CE. Cf. Speidel 2009a: 577.
tac. Ann. 2.56.
31
tac. Ann. 13.35.
32
Marek 2010: 420.
33
tac. Hist. 3.47. Cf. J. BJ 2.16.4. Speidel 2009a: 601f. See also Saddington 2010. Wheeler
2012a.
34
Plin. Nat. 6.4.12f.
35
Suet. Ves. 8.4: propter adsiduos barbarorum incursus.
36
J. BJ 7.1.2; 7.5.2.
37
Cf. e.g. Mitchell 1993: 118; Gebhardt 2002: 43; Facella 2006: 225–338; Eck 2007: 190–
201; Speidel 2009a: 563–580; Marek 2010: 422–427. For Galatia cf. below. the exact relation
29
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nearly the same time we hear of a dangerous military escalation between
Rome and Parthia.38 Legionary bases were established near Commagenian
Samosata in 73 and at Cappadocian Satala by the mid 70’s. Roman legions
moved in and became permanent garrisons: legio XII Fulminata at Meli‑
tene39 and irst legio VI Flavia irma and then (probably early in Hadrian’s
reign) legio XV Apollinaris at Satala.40 Also, a number of cohorts were trans‑
ferred from Syria into Cappadocia during the course of the 70s and 80s of
the irst century CE.41 the new Roman army in Cappadocia thus included,
at the turn of the irst to the second century CE, two legions, at least four
alae, and perhaps some ifteen or more cohorts. Of the later at least three
were milliary. Excluding the irregulars, the auxiliary army at that time thus
counted at least 11’000 men. A fourth (?) milliary cohort was transferred
to Cappadocia towards the end of trajan’s reign.42 But Vespasian not only
moved a major Roman army as a permanent provincial garrison into Cap‑
padocia, he also reunited Galatia and Cappadocia under the responsibility
of a single Roman oicial, as they had been, at times, during the Neronian
wars.43 the troops, however, were practically all concentrated in the Cap‑
padocian east and along the Colchian coast of the Black Sea.44 the reasons
for the formation of this enormous new province are not on record, but it
seems likely that Corbulo’s experiences with supplying his troops during
Nero’s Parthian war, as well as logistical and other considerations related
to Cappadocia’s large new garrison and its detachment from Syria played
an important role (cf. also below).
Major construction work ensued. Garrison places, old and new,45 turned
into building sites, and a new and wide infrastructure network was set up
in eastern Asia Minor and North Syria that intended to secure the logistical
support and the operational readiness of the Roman army on the eastern
frontier.46 No doubt, Corbulo’s experiences with supplying the army during
Nero’s Parthian war had produced essential information and expertise that
were now put to use. Legio V Macedonia’s failure to join Paetus’ Armenian
campaign of 62 in time, and the revolt of Anicetus in 69 further underscored
between the creation of the new province Lycia et Pamphylia in ca. 71 (cf. now Adak – Wil‑
son 2012) and Vespasian’s reorganization of the eastern frontier is not entirely clear.
38
Plin. Pan. 9.2; 14.1; 16.1; 58.3; 89.3. ILS 8970. Dąbrowa 1998: 64–67. Cf. Speidel 2009a: 124f.
39
J. BJ 7.1.2.
40
Mitford 1997: 140–146; Wheeler 2000: 293–296.
41
Speidel 2009a: 620f.
42
Speidel 2009a: 623–626.
43
See Eck 2007: esp. 199.
44
Speidel 2009a: 620–623 and 627; Wheeler 2012b: 621.
45
Despite several laws and errors, misrepresentations and speculations, the lengthy dis‑
cussion of ND, or. 38 by Wheeler 2012b ofers the most recent and comprehensive atempt
to locate and identify garrison places of the Cappadocian army.
46
tac. Ann. 13.39; 15.12. van Berchem 1985: esp. 76.; Speidel 2012a. Speidel 2014: 91–93.
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Rome’s strategic need to dispose of and securely control the overland and
maritime connections in eastern Anatolia, Colchis, and northern Syria. the
large scale construction programme thus included canals and locks on the
orontes river, above and below Antioch, as well as the improvement and the
extension of a vast network of roads in Galatia, Cappadocia, Pontus, Pisidia,
Paphlagonia, Lycaonia, and Armenia Minor that was completed only under
Domitian’s governor of Galatia‑Cappadocia, Aulus Caesennius Gallus.47
Cappadocia’s new military role also afected the neighbouring regions,
Galatia above all. By the reign of Domitian, its capital Ancyra was the seat
of a collegium veteranorum and had begun to develop into an increasingly
important military hub that saw great numbers of troops and supplies
move to and from the war zones in the east.48 this aspect of Ancyra’s history
continued to intensify even after Galatia’s detachment from Cappadocia
in the early second century, and appears to have had an important impact
on the urbanization of central Anatolia.49 Further, several military bases
(dating, it seems, mainly from the second century and later) were installed
along the main roads through Asia Minor to the eastern frontier as well
as in the military concentration areas along the Euphrates. these bases
apparently served logistical purposes for the many detachments on their
march to and from the eastern war zones.50 on the Pontic coast, trapezus,
which had been heavily involved in logistic operations during Corbulo’s
campaign’s, also developed into a major military centre, controlling lines
of communication and supply. It was the initial base of the Roman classis
Pontica, and connected the army in Cappadocia with the Black Sea forts
on the Colchian coast. Hadrian built a new harbour, and at an unknown
point in time during the second century a permanent fortress for detach‑
ments of the Cappadocian legions was constructed.51 Yet, it was not only
during wartime that trapezus played an important logistical role for the
Cappadocian army, as it was the main harbour through which supplies
and grain from the Bosporan Kingdom and elsewhere were imported.52
47
Gallus: PIR2 C 170. Cf. e.g. ILS 263. Cumont 1923: 110 and 123; Mitchell 1993: 124f.
Marek 2010: 467. French 2012: nos. 7; 8; 38; 67; 103; 117; 122; 128. French 2013: no. 66.
Speidel 2014: 92.
48
Cf. I.Ankara I 46, 72, 81, 156–190 etc.
49
Coşkun 2013: 175f. with further literature.
50
See Speidel 2009a: 255–281; Speidel 2009b and Speidel (forthcoming); Coşkun 2013: 173.
51
Harbour: Arr. Peripl.M.Eux. 16. Cf. D.C. 69.5.3; Wheeler 2007: 246. Fortress: CIL III 6745
and 6747; AE 1975, 783 = AE 1993, 1562. Cf. Wheeler 2000: 301f.; Wheeler 2012a. Not until
the reign of Diocletian, however, was the fortress at trapezus the actual headquarters of
a legion: the newly raised legio I Pontica: CIL III 6746 = ILS 639. Cf. AE 1972, 636; ND, or.
38.16; Speidel 2009a: 597.
52
Wheeler 2007: 246. the harbor of Amisus may also have played a role as a logistical
base for the exercitus Capadocicus. Not all the grain for the Cappadocian army, however,
needed to be imported.
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the reign of Vespasian, above all, thus saw Cappadocia being upgraded
in several steps to a consular province with a major military garrison.
Rome’s dramatically increased interest in Cappadocia, of course, relected
the country’s new strategic position. Cappadocia’s governor was therefore
a man of high social standing and considerable political inluence. In all of
Asia Minor, he was junior in rank and age only to the proconsul Asiae. Who‑
ever managed to establish or even maintain direct contact to the consularis
had connected to the highest level of Rome’s political networks. this was
just as true for those of local descent as it was for anyone who, for what‑
ever reason, had come to the province. thus, Flavius Arrianus’s Periplus
gives an example of how the consular Roman governor was visible to, and
interacted with the many soldiers in his province. For Arrian records how,
as legatus Augusti of Cappadocia, he sailed on a routine journey from tra‑
pezus to visit and inspect the auxiliary forts along the eastern coast of the
Black Sea and how, on this highly symbolic occasion, he distributed pay to
the soldiers in the context of a ceremonial parade.53
Evidently, such journeys were absolutely essential to the functioning
of the Roman Empire. What the distribution of soldiers’ pay actually
involved can be estimated in the case of Arrian’s irst stop, Apsaros, which
had a garrison of ive cohorts (thus, theoretically, some 2,500 soldiers). If
we just calculate with basic rates of pay, Arrian would have handed out
the equivalent of over 208’000 denarii or over 700 kg of silver at Apsaros.
By the second century, it appears, many of the coins that actually arrived
in and circulated around the forts on the Colchian coast were minted at
trapezus.54 The inlux of large sums of coined money three times per year
thus surely had signiicant efects on the economic development of this
region on the far periphery of the Roman Empire. of course, much of
the money would be used for the upkeep and provisioning of the gar‑
rison, and thus large sums left the region again (or maybe never even
arrived, see below). However, much money also remained in a local mon‑
etary circuit. In either case, however, spending this money outside the
immediate military community signiicantly increased the entire region’s
connectivity.
Arrian’s journey thus helps us to understand how the sheer size of Cap‑
padocia’s new garrison must have had very noticeable implications on the
country’s social and economic structures, and particularly on Cappadocia’s
interconnections with the Mediterranean world on several accounts, even
though our sources relect these developments only very inadequately.
Imports, for instance, had to cover all the needs of the army that could
not be produced locally. Bosporan grain, already mentioned, was but one
53
54
Arr. Peripl.M.Eux. 6 and 10.
thus Wheeler 2000: 301, n. 243 with bibliography.
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item on the list of such imports, which was no doubt substantial. unfortu‑
nately, any atempt at reconstructing a list of military imports to Cappado‑
cia seems futile considering the enormous lack of local documentary and
archaeological data. Nevertheless, a papyrus from 138 CE, now kept at
Warsaw, might give an impression of what was involved. It preserves an
order for military clothes for the Cappadocian army that were to be pro‑
duced in a village in Egypt. The text speciied that the clothes were to be
“from ine, soft, white wool without any dirt, well-woven and well-edged,
pleasing and undamaged”.55 According to the papyrus, this speciic order
involved agents, contracts, leters, money credits, travels, producers and
products, transports and payments, and connected far‑away places and
diverse cultures with each other. Yet there is nothing to suggest that this
procedure was in any way exceptional. It rather appears to have been one
of a great many routine transactions that were necessary for the upkeep of
the Cappadocian army.
Cappadocia also exported local products for the Roman army. Silver
coins minted at Caesarea, the Cappadocian capital, for instance, appear, at
times, to have been exported to Syria.56 the most famous export, however,
were Cappadocian horses, renowned for their speed.57 Papyrological evi‑
dence atests their use in the army of Dura Europos, for instance.58 As else‑
where, service in the Roman army also ofered access to Roman networks
and exposure to Roman culture (albeit of a speciic military lavour).59
Moreover, it provided opportunities to consort with fellow soldiers from
many diferent parts of the Roman world, and, on occasion, to serve out‑
side one’s native province. the recorded movements of troops, soldiers
and oicers in and out of Cappadocia thus betray the fact that all Roman
soldiers of the exercitus Cappadocicus belonged to an empire‑wide imperial
network, which the Roman army was.60
While most of the described efects of provincialization can also be
observed in other heavily garrisoned frontier provinces, there are also a
few phenomena that seem to be typical for Cappadocia. thus, considering
the enormous size of the Roman garrison of the province, the army must
have absorbed a great many recruits. However, the number of known
Roman soldiers of Cappadocian origin anywhere in the Roman Empire is
exceedingly small, as is the overall number of soldiers’ gravestones found
BGu VII 1564 = Sel.Pap. II 395.
Butcher – Ponting 2009.
57
E.g. Str. 11.13.7; Hdt. 3.90. Cf. X. Cyr. 2.1.5; Arr. An. 3.11.7; Diod. 18.16; Plu. Eum. 4; opp.
C. 1.197f.; Vegetius, Mulomedicina 3.6; HA Gord. 4.5. Cf. also Mitchell 2014: 256f.
58
P.Dur. 56 A‑C = RMR 99,3,3.
59
on the subject in general see Speidel 2009a: 22–35 and 515–544; Speidel 2012b.
60
Speidel 2009a: 620–627.
55
56
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within Cappadocia.61 the dearth of epigraphic evidence from Cappadocia
is of course just as much a consequence of the very low degree of urbaniza‑
tion as it is due to the lack of archaeological investigations. Nearly all Cap‑
padocian fortresses of the Roman army as well as their necropoleis await
discovery and investigation. However, that does not explain the dearth of
data from outside the province.
Fortunately, the data provided by the military diplomas sheds a litle
more light on some issues concerning the Roman army of Cappado‑
cia, which after all was one of Rome’s largest military provinces. We
currently know of only three fragmentary diplomas for soldiers from
auxiliary troops that belonged to the Roman army of Cappadocia. they
date to the years 94, 100, and 101 CE.62 The irst is very fragmentary, and
the second was the copy of an exceptional constitution that was issued
for only two soldiers. the third diploma, which is as yet still unpub‑
lished, is fairly complete. Considering the size of the Cappadocian army
and the number of auxiliary units, this is an exceedingly small number
of surviving military diplomas. We know of at least ive times as many
diplomas from other provinces with Roman garrisons of comparable
size.
the number of known diplomas for a particular province depends on
several factors. one is of course the amount of diplomas that was once
issued for that province, which in the case of Cappadocia ought to be
considerable. Another factor is the intensity of archaeological investiga‑
tion within a provincial area. this is comparatively low in the regions
that once made up the Roman province of Cappadocia, which seems to
go well with the very small number of Cappadocian diplomas. However,
only about one third of the diplomas hitherto known for Lower Germany
or Britain have been found within the conines of these two major Roman
military provinces, despite the widespread and intensive archaeological
work conducted in these regions. In the case of the exercitus Syriacus, even
all 18 diplomas hitherto known were found outside provincia Syria.63 the
ind spots of these diplomas are oicially recorded as ‘unknown’, but
specialists are in no doubt that most of them come from illegal ‘excava‑
tions’ in the Balkans.64 that also goes well with the recorded origins of
the recipients of these diplomas, for most of them were issued to veterans
from thrace and the Lower Danube who returned to their homes after
military service. the large number of such diplomas further emphasises
See e.g. Mitchell 1994. For the legions Forni 1953: 94, 184; Forni 1992: 104, 122f., 126,
136. See also Eck 2009 for the auxilia in Asia Minor.
62
AE 2004, 1920; AE 2004, 1913. Cf. Speidel 2009a: 605f.
63
For the later see Weiss 2006. Eck – Pangerl 2014.
64
Eck 2012: 30.
61
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the importance of Thrace and the Balkans as a major recruiting ield for
the Roman army.65
the small number of known military diplomas for soldiers of the exercitus Cappadocicus thus indicates that recruitment from the Balkans for
military units in Cappadocia was, surprisingly, signiicantly less common
than for other large provincial armies, despite the relative geographical
proximity. Moreover, the three hitherto known Cappadocian constitu‑
tions concern soldiers recruited during the years between around 70 and
75 CE. this was precisely the period, in which the Cappadocian army was
massively built up and it is not unlikely, therefore, that in these years large
numbers of recruits (including recruits from the Balkans) were moved into
Cappadocia. Further, the merger of Cappadocia and Galatia to a single
major province in the same period may have been a measure to secure the
supplies and a suicient number of legionary recruits for the new Cap‑
padocian army. For the Roman colonies and other veteran setlements
in Southern Galatia, Pisidia and Lycaonia were ideal recruiting grounds
for the Roman legions in Cappadocia, while governors had no right to
independently recruit soldiers beyond the conines of their province.66
the renewed detachment of Galatia from Cappadocia on the eve of tra‑
jan’s Parthian war may therefore (at least in part) have been linked to new
recruitment paterns.67 the surprisingly small number of known soldiers
from the Cappadocian legions is therefore perhaps indeed due to their
recruitment from areas within Galatia and Cappadocia that have seen litle
or no archaeological investigation. the same might be true for the auxilia,
as there is no reason to believe that Cappadocia could not supply a sui‑
cient number of recruits for the cohortes and alae stationed in the province.
Finally, the careers of equestrian oicers, also reveal a remarkable patern:
the majority of equestrian oicers, regardless of their origins, commanded
more than one unit in eastern Anatolia.68 therefore, it seems that in the
case of the Cappadocian army more than elsewhere, recruitment and mis‑
sion may have been a predominantly Anatolian afair.
A senator from Cappadocia (ti. Claudius Gordianus, from tyana) is
known from the reign of Commodus.69 Interestingly, however, there seems
to be no known equestrian commander of a Roman auxiliary unit of Cap‑
padocian origin. Again, this is most likely, in the irst instance, due to the
Amm.Marc. 26.7.5: bellatrices Thraciae gentes. Expositio totius mundi 50 = Riese 1887: 117:
Thracia provincia ... maximos habens viros et fortes in bello. Propterquod et frequenter inde milites
tolluntur.
66
Dig. 1.16.1; 1.18.3; 48.4.3. tac. Ann. 13.7; 14.38. D.C. 53.15.6; 53.17.5f. on the subject see
Speidel 2009a: 213–234.
67
Detachment: Eck 2007: 201.
68
Speidel 2009a: 606 with further bibliography.
69
AE 1953, 138 (Lambaesis). Cf. PIR2 C 880. DNP Claudius II 33.
65
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lack of archaeological investigation and the low degree of urbanisation
in the area of the former Roman province. Yet, another factor may also
have contributed. The irst members of the ordo equester of Cappadocian
descent show up in our sources about three generations after the creation
of the Roman province. Juvenal and Martial made fun of these Cappado‑
cian equites, calling them slave‑born liars.70 Also, Philostratus, when com‑
menting in his ‘Lives of the Sophists’ on the style and Greek diction of
many sophists from throughout the Roman Empire, refers to only one case
in which the orator revealed a local accent, that of Pausanias of Caesarea
in Cappadocia. this late second century orator, according to Philostra‑
tus, spoke “with a coarse and heavy accent (glōta), as is the case with
Cappadocians”.71 Cappadocians, it seems, had the reputation of being
backward.
No doubt, the Roman army had a major impact on the social, economic,
and cultural history of Cappadocia. It established and ofered access to
numerous Mediterranean based networks and thereby signiicantly
increased Cappadocia’s connectivity with the rest of the Empire. How‑
ever, the evidence also seems to suggest that there may have been, for
a number of reasons, a limit to what the connectivity generated by the
Roman army could achieve in Cappadocia.
Michael A. Speidel
university of Bern
Bern, Swizerland
mspeidel@sunrise.ch
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Abstract: During the Hellenistic period, Cappadocia, a country in eastern
Asia Minor, gradually moved from its age‑old position within networks
centred in the East (Iran and Southern Mesopotamia) into a new frame‑
work of politico-military, economic and cultural ties that signiicantly
intensiied the country’s connectivity with the Mediterranean and Pontic
worlds. Initially, this process was driven by Hellenistic and Roman mili‑
tary enterprises. Yet, even well after Cappadocia was politically and mili‑
tarily irmly integrated into its new Western seting (with political bound‑
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Mediterranean), the Roman army continued to play an important (yet in
some respects also surprisingly limited) role in the country’s multifaceted
connectivity with the West.
Zusammenfassung: In hellenistischer Zeit entfernte sich Kappadokien,
ein Land im osten Kleinasiens, allmählich von seinem uralten, im osten
(Iran und Südmesopotamien) zentrierten Bezugssystem in einen neuen
Zusammenhang von politischen, militärischen, wirtschaftlichen und
kulturellen Nezwerken, die das Land immer fester an die Welten des
Mitelmeers und des Schwarzen Meers banden. Zunächst lösten diesen
Prozess hauptsächlich hellenistische und römische Kriegszügen aus. Doch
selbst als Kappadokien politisch und militärisch bereits fester Bestandteil
der westlichen Welt geworden war (mit Grenzen, durch die das Land zeit‑
weise die Nordküste des Schwarzen Meeres mit dem Mitelmeer direkt
verband), spielte das römische Heer bei der weiteren, vielschichtigen
Einbindung des Landes weiterhin eine wichtige (in mancher Hinsicht aber
auch unerwartet beschränkte) Rolle.
Résumé: Pendant l’époque hellénistique, la Cappadoce, pays de l’Anatolie
orientale, s’est graduellement éloignée de ses réseaux stratégiques anciens,
qui reliaient ce pays avec l’orient (l’Iran et la Mésopotamie du Sud), pour
entrer dans de nouveaux contextes politiques, militaires, économiques et
culturels, qui l’ancraient de plus en plus dans les mondes méditerranéen
et pontique. Dès le départ, ce processus fut encouragé par des opérations
militaires hellénistiques et romaines. Alors, au moment où la Cappadoce a
été incorporée, du point de vue politique et militaire, dans l’empire romain
(avec des frontières qui reliaient, en ce moment, la côte septentrionale de
la mer Noire à la Méditerranée), l’armée romaine a continué à jouer un rôle
important, et parfois surprenant, dans l’intégration du pays.
Note: A new military diploma with the text of an imperial constitution
from 99 CE for the auxiliary forces of Galatia et Cappadocia further con‑
irms the interpretation presented above. The new diploma was issued for a
Roman citizen, perhaps from one of the Roman colonies in Asia Minor. It will
be published by W. Eck and A. Pangerl, Das vierte Diplom für die Provinz
Galatia et Cappadocia, ausgestellt im Jahr 99, ZPE 194, 2014 (forthcoming).
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