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Kolossenos

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Greek ethnic for inhabitant of Colossae

Romanized Name(s):
Kolossenos

Name as attested:

Κολοσσηνός

Language:
Greek (ancient)

Name type:
geographic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Certain

Temporal attestations:

Roman, early Empire (30 BC-AD 300) (confident)

References:

Evidence:

Alan A. Cadwallader, "A new inscription, a correction and a confirmed sighting from Colossae," Epigraphica Anatolica 40 (2007), 109-118 (cf. inscription 3, pp. 112-118

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 65 B2 Colossae

Details:

A date of late first to early-second century CE for the inscription (see below) is asserted by Cadwallader on the basis of letterforms and the "absence of an indicator of Roman citizenship."

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