TY  - JOUR
T1  - The Late Milestones of Asia Minor
TT  - Küçük Asya’nın Geç Dönem Miltaşları
AU  - Destephen, Sylvain
PY  - 2018
DA  - November
DO  - 10.37095/gephyra.480120
JF  - Gephyra
JO  - GEPHYRA
PB  - Nalan Eda AKYÜREK ŞAHİN
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 1309-3924
SP  - 173
EP  - 183
VL  - 16
LA  - en
AB  - Theimpressive corpus of milestones recently edited by the late David Henry Frenchand set online by the British Institute at Ankara provides an extensive andin-depth knowledge of more than 1200 stones erected alongside the Roman roadsof Asia Minor from the late Republic to the Later Empire. Even if milestoneswere the commonest epigraphic display of power in the Roman world, modernactivity tends to obliterate them, and consequently it was more than urgent tocollect the remains before they vanish. This paper studies the unbalancedgeographical and chronological distribution of milestones. They seem to be moreor less scattered throughout Asia Minor, but they are mainly concentrated inthe north-western part of the Anatolian plateau. Besides most of them werebuilt, inscribed or frequently reused in Late Antiquity, especially between thelate third century and the early fourth century, that is from Diocletian toConstantine, both emperors overrepresented in this medium although they rarelyjourneyed in Asia Minor. According to the study of late milestones found in theregion, it did exist a close relation between the advent of a ruler and themultiplication of milestones, which had merely become dynastic monumentserected by local communities in honour of a new emperor. For this reason, theylost any practical purpose and completely disappeared from Asia Minor at thebeginning of the sixth century.
KW  - milestones
KW  - Transanatolian highway
KW  - Tetrarchy
KW  - Constantine
KW  - Theodosian dynasty
KW  - Late Antiquity
N2  - Merhum David Henry French tarafından yakın zamanda edisyonuyapılan ve Ankara’daki İngiliz Enstitüsü tarafından online ortama konulanetkileyici miltaşları corpus’u, geç Cumhuriyet’ten Geç İmparatorluk Dönemi’nekadar Roma yolları boyunca dikilmiş 1200’den fazla taşın derinlemesine vekapsamlı bir bilgisini sunmaktadır. Miltaşları, Roma dünyasının gücünün en sıkepigrafik görünümü olsa da, modern aktiviteler onları yok etme eğilimindedir vesonuç olarak onlar ortadan kaybolmadan bu kalıntıları toplamak her zamankindendaha acil durumdur. Bu makale, miltaşlarının dengesiz coğrafik ve kronolojikyayılımını incelemektedir. Bunlar, hemen hemen tüm Küçük Asya boyunca dağılmışgörünmektedir ve temel olarak Anadolu platosunun kuzey batı bölümüneyoğunlaşmıştır. Ayrıca, birçoğu Geç Antik Çağ’da, özellikle de geç 3. yüzyılile erken 4. yüzyıl arasında, yani Diocletianus’dan Constantinus’a kadar geçendönemde yapılmış, kazınmış ve sık sık yeniden kullanılmıştır. Bu iki imparator,Küçük Asya’da nadiren seyahat etmesine rağmen bu yolla aşırı şekilde temsiledilmişlerdir. Bölgede bulunan Geç Antik Dönem miltaşları hakkında yapılançalışmaya göre, bir yöneticinin gelişiyle miltaşlarının artması arasında yakınbir ilişki mevcuttu. Bu miltaşları, yalnızca yeni bir imparatorun onuruna yereltopluluklar tarafından dikilen hanedanlığına ait eserlerdi. Bu sebepten pratikamacını kaybederek 6. yüzyılın başında tamamıyla Küçük Asya’dan kayboldular.
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