Troas’ta Skepsis ve Galat İstilası

Year 2025, Volume: 30, 35 - 48, 11.11.2025

Aneurin Ellis-evans

https://doi.org/10.37095/gephyra.1684147

Abstract

Bu makale, Troas’taki Skepsis’ten ihmal edilmiş bir yazıtın metnini sunmaktadır. Walther Judeich 1898 yılında metnin bir çizimini yayımlamış, ancak bir metin sunmamıştır. Louis Robert bunun bir phrourarchos için onurlandırma fermanı olduğunu kabul etmiş, ancak bunun dışında çok az ilgi çekmiştir. Burada, 2.-3. satırlarda Seleukos dönemine ait bir tarihleme formülünün ve 6. satırda Galatlara atıfta bulunması gereken ‘barbarlar’ ifadesinin restore edilebileceği önerilmektedir. Dolayısıyla yazıt, Galat Savaşı’nın Skepsis’i doğrudan etkilediğine dair kanıtlar sunmaktadır ve Galatların 277-275 yılları arasında Küçük Asya’nın kuzeybatısındaki etkisine dair küçük bir kanıt dosyasına aittir. Yaklaşık 200 tarihli bir kararnameden bilinen ve bu nedenle geleneksel olarak III. Antiokhos için kurulduğu düşünülen Skepsis’teki Antiokheia festivali, aslında Galat Savaşı sonrasında I. Antiokhos onuruna kurulmuş olabilir.

Keywords

Skepsis , Ilion , Troas , Galatialılar , I. Antiokhos , Seleukoslar

Skepsis in the Troad and the Galatian Invasion

Abstract

This article presents the text of a neglected inscription from Skepsis in the Troad. Walther Judeich published a drawing of the text in 1898, but did not provide a text. Louis Robert recognised it to be an honorific decree for a phrourarch, but otherwise it has attracted very little interest. It is here proposed that a Seleucid regnal dating formula can be restored in lines 2-3 and a reference to ‘barbarians’, which here must refer to Galatians, can be restored in line 6. The inscription therefore provides evidence of the Galatian War directly affecting Skepsis and belongs to the small dossier of evidence for the impact of the Galatians on north-western Asia Minor c. 277-275. The Antiocheia festival at Skepsis, known from a decree dated c. 200 and thus traditionally thought to have been founded for Antiochus III, may in fact have been established in the aftermath of the Galatian War in honour of Antiochus I.

Keywords

Skepsis , Ilion , Troad , Galatians , Antiochus I , Seleucids

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