Caenophrurium
Caenophrurium (also written as Cenophrurium and Coenophrurium;
Location
Classical scholars have at times identified various towns in Thrace as corresponding to Caenophrurium. Recent scholarship locates Caenophrurium near the modern Turkish village of Sinekli, in
The
Some confusion as to the exact location of Caenophrurium appears to derive from the fact that references to the settlement are all made in passing, either as a waystation between other towns, or as the location for the murder of the Emperor Aurelian. These original sources are:
- The Antonine Itinerary, probably dating from the late third century
- Lactantius's De Mortibus Persecutorum, written in late 314 or early 315
- Eutropius's Historiae Romanae Breviarium, written during the reign of the Emperor Valens, 364–378
- The Life of Aurelian, c. 361–425, part of the Historia Augusta, a largely fictional history of Roman emperors
- The Tabula Peutingeriana, 13th-century copy of a Roman map from the early 5th century, based on Roman itineraries
Several routes in the Antonine Itinerary list Caenophrurium as a stage on the Via Egnatia, 18 miles east of Heraclea Perinthus and 27 or 28 miles east of Melantias (probably modern Yarımburgaz).[5][6] Logically, this might place Caenophrurium on the Marmara coast near Silivri. Instead, it appears that Caenophrurium was actually sited inland, 20 kilometres (12 mi) to the north of the main Via Egnatia, on a smaller northern route from Byzantium to Bizye.[7]
Other writers have identified Caenophrurium with Tzirallum (modern Çorlu), but this seems unlikely as several sources list Tzirallum and Caenophrurium as separate places. For example, the Antonine Itinerary lists Caenophrurium as two stages and 36 miles closer to Byzantium than Tzirallum,[5] and the Tabula Peutingeriana shows the locations separately.[8][9]
Lewis and Short's
Murder of Aurelian
In 275, the Emperor
Notes
- ^ a b The Life of Aurelian, Chapters 35–37
- ^ Drakoulis 2013, p. 241
- ^ Talbert 2000, p. 52 C2
- ^ a b Drakoulis 2013, p. 239
- ^ a b Cuntz 1929, Stages 138,3; 230,9; 323,6; 332,7.
- ^ Miller 1916, pp. 539, 589
- ^ Drakoulis 2013, p. 238
- ^ Tabula Peutingeriana
- ^ Talbert 2010, p. 223,234,247,249
- ^ a b Lewis & Short 1879
References
- Cuntz, Otto, ed. (1929), "Imperatoris Antonini Augusti Itineraria Provinciarum", Itineraria Romana: Volume I (in Latin), Leipzig: Teubner
- Drakoulis, Dimitris P. (2013), "European and Asiatic settlements of the Bosporus hinterland in the Early Byzantine period" (PDF), The Bosporus: Gateway between the Ancient West and East (1st Millennium BC – 5th Century AD), Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities, Istanbul, 14th–18th September 2009, BAR International Series 2517, Archaeopress, pp. 237–247, ISBN 9781407311357
- Külzer, Andreas (2008), Ostthrakien (Europe), Tabula Imperii Byzantini: Volume 12 (in German), Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles, eds. (1879), "Caenophrūrĭum", A Latin Dictionary
- "The Life of Aurelian", Historia Augusta (in Latin and English)
- Miller, Konrad (1916), Itineraria Romana: Römische Reisewege an der Hand der Tabula Peutingeriana dargestellt [Itineraria Romana: Roman routes shown in the Tabula Peutingeriana] (in German), Stuttgart: Stecker and Schröder
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- Tabula Peutingeriana
- ISBN 9780691031699
- ISBN 9780521764803
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