Research Article

Was Pednelissos a ‘Galatian Polis’? A Note on SEG II 710 and the Debate on the Location of Paul’s Galatians

Volume: 6 December 15, 2020
  • Altay Coşkun
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Was Pednelissos a ‘Galatian Polis’? A Note on SEG II 710 and the Debate on the Location of Paul’s Galatians

Abstract

Scholarship is divided whether Paul’s Letter to the Galatians addresses ethnic Galatians in or around Ankyra (North Galatian hypothesis) or other inhabitants in the south of the Roman pro-vince (South Galatian hypothesis). The South Galatian hypothesis, so it is argued, should no lon-ger draw on a lex sacra from Pisidian Pednelissos, which was traditionally dated to the 1st century (BC or AD), though should rather be considered early-Hellenistic. In this, citizens allegedly self-identify as πόλις Γαλατῶν (SEG II 710, l. 9). Γαλατῶν is neither an ethnic nor a compliment of πόλις, but defines the ten candidates that the community is to preselect from among the sanctua-ry’s neokoroi (Γαλατῶν δε[κ]άδ[ος συναχθείσης]). A lot was then to decide which of them would be the next Galato, the most prominent sacred official of Pednelissos, probably the priestess of the (Eleusinian) triad Pluto(s), Kore and Demeter.

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Thanks

I would like to thank my friends Mustafa Adak and Felix John for their constructive feedback on this paper and their generous help with completing my bibliography. For further acknowledgments, see below, n. 15.

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Primary Language

English

Subjects

Linguistics

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Research Article

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Publication Date

December 15, 2020

Submission Date

May 2, 2020

Acceptance Date

June 30, 2020

Published in Issue

Year 2020 Volume: 6

APA
Coşkun, A. (2020). Was Pednelissos a ‘Galatian Polis’? A Note on SEG II 710 and the Debate on the Location of Paul’s Galatians. PHILIA, 6, 62-73. https://doi.org/10.36991/PHILIA.202005
AMA
1.Coşkun A. Was Pednelissos a ‘Galatian Polis’? A Note on SEG II 710 and the Debate on the Location of Paul’s Galatians. PHILIA. 2020;6:62-73. doi:10.36991/PHILIA.202005
Chicago
Coşkun, Altay. 2020. “Was Pednelissos a ‘Galatian Polis’? A Note on SEG II 710 and the Debate on the Location of Paul’s Galatians”. PHILIA 6 (December): 62-73. https://doi.org/10.36991/PHILIA.202005.
EndNote
Coşkun A (December 1, 2020) Was Pednelissos a ‘Galatian Polis’? A Note on SEG II 710 and the Debate on the Location of Paul’s Galatians. PHILIA 6 62–73.
IEEE
[1]A. Coşkun, “Was Pednelissos a ‘Galatian Polis’? A Note on SEG II 710 and the Debate on the Location of Paul’s Galatians”, PHILIA, vol. 6, pp. 62–73, Dec. 2020, doi: 10.36991/PHILIA.202005.
ISNAD
Coşkun, Altay. “Was Pednelissos a ‘Galatian Polis’? A Note on SEG II 710 and the Debate on the Location of Paul’s Galatians”. PHILIA 6 (December 1, 2020): 62-73. https://doi.org/10.36991/PHILIA.202005.
JAMA
1.Coşkun A. Was Pednelissos a ‘Galatian Polis’? A Note on SEG II 710 and the Debate on the Location of Paul’s Galatians. PHILIA. 2020;6:62–73.
MLA
Coşkun, Altay. “Was Pednelissos a ‘Galatian Polis’? A Note on SEG II 710 and the Debate on the Location of Paul’s Galatians”. PHILIA, vol. 6, Dec. 2020, pp. 62-73, doi:10.36991/PHILIA.202005.
Vancouver
1.Altay Coşkun. Was Pednelissos a ‘Galatian Polis’? A Note on SEG II 710 and the Debate on the Location of Paul’s Galatians. PHILIA. 2020 Dec. 1;6:62-73. doi:10.36991/PHILIA.202005