Kelainai-Apameia Kibotos: an Achaemenid, Hellenistic and Roman metropolis.
| N° d'inventaire | 20326 |
| Format | 21 x 29.7 |
| Détails | 536 p., illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Bordeaux, 2016 |
| Etat | Nine |
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The Kelainai series aims to publish the results of research on the most important urban center in southern Phrygia: the city of Kelainai. The city began to acquire supraregional importance in the Achaemenid period, when it became one of the residences of the great king Xerxes, and later of Prince Cyrus the Younger. In the Hellenistic period, the Seleucid king Antiochus I Soter (281-261 BC) refounded the city, which was then called Apamea, after the king's mother. It was here, in 188 BC, that peace was negotiated between Rome and the Seleucid kingdom. In Roman times, Apamea was described by Strabo as the largest trading center in Asia after Ephesus. Despite its historical importance, the city had never been the subject of a thorough archaeological investigation. The systematic study of its ancient remains only began in 2008, as part of a project co-financed by the National Research Agency, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Aquitaine Region and other institutions. This volume, the second in the “Kelainai” collection, continues the publication of the results of this research carried out since the publication of the first volume in 2011.
The Kelainai series aims to publish the results of research on the most important urban center in southern Phrygia: the city of Kelainai. The city began to acquire supraregional importance in the Achaemenid period, when it became one of the residences of the great king Xerxes, and later of Prince Cyrus the Younger. In the Hellenistic period, the Seleucid king Antiochus I Soter (281-261 BC) refounded the city, which was then called Apamea, after the king's mother. It was here, in 188 BC, that peace was negotiated between Rome and the Seleucid kingdom. In Roman times, Apamea was described by Strabo as the largest trading center in Asia after Ephesus. Despite its historical importance, the city had never been the subject of a thorough archaeological investigation. The systematic study of its ancient remains only began in 2008, as part of a project co-financed by the National Research Agency, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Aquitaine Region and other institutions. This volume, the second in the “Kelainai” collection, continues the publication of the results of this research carried out since the publication of the first volume in 2011.