11. Araştırma Sonuçları Toplantısı - Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı

moreover, they had contracted a match with a local woman and childrenhad ensued, the incentive to put down roots in the local communitywould be even greater. With a local wife and the promise of two stalwartsons to care for him in his old age in his new Pamphylian home, the prospectof returning to his former haunts in the Cyrrhestica would have heldlittle attraction for Galba.A somewhat different scenario can be reconstructed for Papas, theson of Cillis, the beneficiary named in the Anamur diploma. His place oforigin would have appeared in the lost right hand portion of the line containinghis name. Unlike Galba, no wife is named in his diploma, thoughthe names of two sons, Gellius and Paulus, appear in the subsequent twolines, with room for a third son and almost certainly a fourth child of indeterminatesex in the missing part of the text. Unlike his two knownsons to whom he gave standard Italian names widely used throughout theRoman army, Papas's own name and that of his father are unmistakablyAnatolian. Papas is a very common name well attested in many parts ofAsia Minor. His father's name Cillis, on the other hand, is restrictedlargely to the Isaurian central seetion of the Taurus mountain range andthe adjoining rugged coast to the south. In this region it crops up in variousplaces, appearing'even in a rare Phoenician text from the site on Cebellresas early as the Iate seventh century BıC." From early times this intractibleterritory producing a tough breed of men had proved a fertilerecruiting ground for mercenaries in the great empires of the eastemMediterranean and the Middle East. The Roman Empire was no exceptions,So Papas was following a well established tradition when, aroundthe year 111 or 112, he signed up for 25 years of service with a cohortoriginally raised in the neighborhood of Damascus probably 60 or 70years earlier, but now dependent on recruitment from other regions tomaintain its strength. It would be pleasing to think that the First Cohortof Damascenes was stationed somewhere in the vicinity at the time of hisenlistment, perhaps as the garrison regiment of Cilicia or another of theprovinces of Asia Minor, but the record is silent. On the other hand, thereis evidence to suggest that the First Damaseenes were stationed in Egyptduring the 120's. The transfer of the regiment to Syria-Palestine mustsurely have occurred between 132 and 135, during the Bar-Kokhba Revoltin Judaea, when severalother auxiliary·units were also moved to Ju-(5) P.G. Mosca and J. Russell, "A Phoenician Inscription from Cebel Ires in Rough Cilicia",Epig Anat 9 (1987),1-28.(6) J. Russell, "CiIicia-NutrixVirorum: CiIicians Abroad in Peace and War during Helienisticand Roman Times" in De Anatolia Antiqua i (Bibliotheque de I'institut français d'etudesanatoIiennes d'lstanbul 32) (Paris, 1991),283-297.165