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The Site of Prostanna

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

M. H. Ballance
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The Pisidian city of Prostanna is mentioned in only two literary sources: Ptolemy (V, 5, 7) gives it as Prostama, while the list of bishops attending the Council of Constantinople in 381 includes Attalus Prostamensis among the Pisidian bishops.

The only official inscription mentioning it is one from Delos, in which the Demos of the Prostaenneis honoured a quaestor propraetore of the Province Asia in 113 B.C. The comparatively numerous coins give the name as Prostanna, and some of them bear representations of a conical mountain entitled Viaros (Οὐιαρος) or of a river-god Tioulos.

As long ago as 1890, Ramsay proposed to equate Mt. Viaros with the conspicuous sugar-loaf of rock at the southern end of Lake Eğirdir, immediately above the town of Eğirdir itself.

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Research Article
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Anatolian Studies , Volume 9 , December 1959 , pp. 125 - 129
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1959

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References

1 The location of Prostanna has been discussed by the following: Ramsay, W. M., Historical Geography of Asia Minor (R.G.S. Supplementary Papers, Vol. IV) 1890, pp. 406 f.Google Scholar, and in BSA. IX, 1902–1903, pp. 257 ff.Google Scholar; Hill, G. F., B.M. Catalogue of Greek Coins, Lycia, etc., 1897, p. cviGoogle Scholar; Robert, L., in Comptes Rendus de l'Acad. des Inscr., 1948, p. 402Google Scholar; Magie, D., Roman Rule in Asia Minor, 1950, I, p. 457Google Scholar; II, p. 1316, note 23; Kirsten, E. in RE., XXIII, i (1957)Google Scholar, Col. 899, who however does not mention Robert's discovery.

2 The best means of access by car is to take the road to Camili Yayla, which branches off the Eğirdir–Isparta road just by a railway bridge. After a considerable climb a small white-washed cottage with a corrugated iron roof is reached. From here the site is a quarter of an hour'1s easy walking, in the direction of the peak.

3 Prostanna and Eudoxioupolis, Jones, A. H. M., Cities of the Eastern Roman Provinces, 1937, p. 143Google Scholar and note 36; Eudoxioupolis and Bindeos, Ramsay, op. cit., pp. 404 f., BSA. IX, pp. 255 fGoogle Scholar. As Ruge, , in RE, VIGoogle Scholar, Col. 929, points out, the evidence for these equations is very tenuous.