Tituli Comanorum Cappadociae

Extract

The work presented here is the result of visits to the site of Comana Cappadociae, at Şar, in the kaza of Mağara, in the vilayet of Adana, on a number of occasions in the years 1963–65. In 1963 I was assisted with a grant by the University of Durham; in 1964 I was Scholar, and in 1965 Librarian, of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara. In the course of these visits I have been able to copy a number of previously unrecorded inscriptions and also to check, and sometimes correct, the reading of a number of others that have survived since the major activity of copyists at the site in the 1880's and 1900's. It seemed useful, while publishing these new and corrected inscriptions, to collect together from their various places of publication and republication what I hope are all the known inscriptions of the “Holy City” of Cappadocia. I list here the publications which contain inscriptions from Şar, preceded by the abbreviations used to refer to them in this article.