Life in the truck lane: Urban development in Western Rough Cilicia
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2009
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The members of the Rough Cilicia Archaeological Survey Team dedicate this essay to the memory of Kurt
Tomaschitz, a remarkable scholar who passed away tragically in May 2008. As Assistant Professor with the
Institut für Alte Geschichte und Altertumskunde, Papyrologie und Epigraphik at the University of Vienna,
Kurt Tomaschitz was arguably the leading authority on Rough Cilician epigraphy of our generation. His
publications, »Unpublizierte Inschriften Westkilikiens aus dem Nachlaß T.B. Mitfords« (1998) and »Repertorium der westkilikischen Inschriften« (with Stefan Hagel, 1998), remain fundamental to the understanding
of social institutions and urban development in Roman Rough Cilicia.
Our communication with Kurt Tomaschitz began in 2002, when he informed us that he was preparing
a response to our on-line publication of the inscribed statue base that we located at Göçük village in 2000
<https://engineering.purdue.edu/~cilicia>. The base records a dedication by »the Demos of Juliosebaste,«
thus confirming the existence of a community by this name in western Rough Cilicia. We discussed at
length the problems raised by this inscription and remained in close correspondence with Kurt from then on.
After he published his response in »Tyche« in 2003, we undertook the challenge of reconciling our initial
interpretation of this dedication with his compelling, alternative point of view. Two years later Kurt agreed
to serve as a co-organizer of the International Conference being organized in Lincoln Nebraska: »Rough
Cilicia: New Archaeological and Historical Approaches«. When the participants of the conference assembled in Lincoln in October 2007, we were both saddened and alarmed to learn that Kurt’s failing health had
prevented him from joining us. His characteristically informative paper on Cilician piracy was read aloud
by M. Hoff and will appear in the forthcoming conference proceedings. All the while the members of the
survey team continued to develop the following essay, intended to summarize the most significant findings
of our field investigations in western Rough Cilicia. As will become evident to the reader, Kurt’s courteous
and insightful recommendations prompted us to adjust our views about the foundation of Roman era Juliosebaste in western Rough Cilicia. Close analysis of a second inscription recovered by the team at Göçük and
discussed below positively confirms Kurt’s hypothesis that Juliosebaste was founded and sustained by local
dynasts (client kings and queens), rather than by the Roman Emperor Augustus. Such was the nature of Kurt
Tomaschitz’ penetrating insight that his mere suggestion altered the trajectory of on-going research efforts
continents apart. Throughout our correspondence Kurt exhibited the kindliness, enthusiasm, and urbanity of
a gentleman in every sense of the word.
The members of the survey team express our sincere condolences to family, friends, and co-workers of
Kurt Tomaschitz at the loss of so talented a scholar in the prime of his career. We take comfort in the fact
that his substantial contributions will undoubtedly stimulate new directions in Rough Cilicia studies for
decades to come
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Cilicia, Late Antique, Early Byzantine
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Jahreshefte des Osterreichischen Archaologischen Institutes in Wien
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