Comama

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Coordinates: 37°20′N 30°27′E / 37.333°N 30.450°E / 37.333; 30.450
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37°20′N 30°27′E / 37.333°N 30.450°E / 37.333; 30.450 Comama was a town in the late

Pamphylia Secunda. It has been called Pisidian, not as being in `Pisidia, but as founded on what was the Pisidian frontier of the Roman Empire.[1]

History

The full title of the town was Colonia Iulia Augusta Prima Fida Comama. The first term in this title indicates that it was founded as a

Octavian. Comama was one of a group of such settlements established in the area, which were linked by an imperial road called the Via Sebaste, one milestone of which (XLV) has been found at Comama. The milestones were set up in about 6 BC, an indication of the date of foundation of Comama.[1]

The site was at Şerefönü in present-day Turkey.[2]

Comama minted coins, including some in the reigns of Marcus Aurelius and Antoninus Pius, whose heads figure on the coins.[3]

Bishopric

The

Perge, the capital of Pamphylia Secunda.[4][5]

The acts of the

Leo I the Thracian regarding the murder of Proterius of Alexandria and the adjectival form of whose see appears as Comaneus[7] was probably bishop of Comama.[4] There is no mention of Comama in the Notitiae Episcopatuum of the 7th and 10th centuries.[8]

No longer a residential bishopric, Comama is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b W.M. Ramsay. "Colonia Caesarea (Pisidian Antioch) in the Augustan Age" in Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 6 (1916), pp. 83–134
  2. ^ Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites
  3. ^ "RPC â€" Search: Quick". Rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
  4. ^ a b Raymond Janin, v. Comama, in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XIII, Paris 1956, col. 353
  5. ^
    ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1
    ), p. 873
  6. ^ Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, vol. III, col. 570
  7. ^ Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, vol. VII, col. 576
  8. ^ Heinrich Gelzer, "Ungedruckte und ungenügend veröffentlichte Texte der Notitiae episcopatuum", in: Abhandlungen der philosophisch-historische Classe der bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1901, pp. 541 and 556.

Further reading

  • Tim Cornell and John Frederick Matthews (1991). The Roman World. p. 232.


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