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Cremna in Pisidia - An Ancient City in Peace and War (Hardcover)
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Cremna in Pisidia - An Ancient City in Peace and War (Hardcover)
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Cremna, a ruined city of southern Turkey, has one of the most
spectacular sites in Asia Minor, high in the Taurus mountains. For
long a stronghold of hellenised Pisidians, Cremna was re-founded as
a veteran colony by the emperor Augustus. From the age of Hadrian
until the early third century ad the colony enjoyed a boom in
public buildings, whose remains still adorn the site. Disaster
struck in the late third century when Cremna became the centre for
a regional insurrection against Roman rule. Roman forces staged a
major siege of the city, and recaptured it in AD 278. A bishopric
in Late Antiquity, Cremna was abandoned in the sixth or seventh
century. This book gives a detailed reconstruction of Cremna's life
and history, based on an intensive survey of the archaeological
remains between 1985 and 1987. There is a lively account of the
survey itself. The book also traces the story of the rediscovery of
the site in 1833 and the contributions of early travellers and
archaeologists. There is a full study of the public building
programme of Cremna from the first century BC to the third century
AD; of the aqueduct, water supply and domestic housing; and of
church building in Late Antiquity. The highlight of the
archaeological survey was the discovery of numerous remains of the
Roman siege of AD 278. The siege of Cremna demonstrates classical
techniques of Roman siege warfare, which hitherto were best known
from Josephus' account of the Jewish Revolt in AD 66-73. Cremna in
Pisidia is written in a style accessible to general readers as well
as to specialists. It is not only a definitive account of an
important city of the Roman East. It is also a case study exploring
many of the common characteristics of civic life in the Roman
world.
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