Synnada, Phrygia

Synnada (Suhut, Turkey today) was of considerable importance as a station on the road from Apameia to the north and east. Synnada is said to have been founded by Acamas who went to Phrygia after the Trojan War and took some Macedonian colonists. It enters written history when the Roman consul Gnaeus Manlius Vulso passed through on his expeditions against the Galatians in 189 B.C. After having belonged to the kingdom of the Attalids, it became the capital of a district of the province of Asia. Cicero stayed there for three days on his way to Cilicia. In Strabo's time it was still a small town, but when Pliny wrote it was an important place, being the conventus juridicus for the whole of the surrounding country. Under Diocletian at the time of the creation of Phrygia Pacatiana, Synnada, at the intersection of two great roads, became the metropolis. The city was celebrated throughout the Roman Empire for its precious Synnadic marble, a light color marble interspersed with purple spots and veins, which was traded from Synnada for transport to Ephesus, where it was shipped overseas to Italy.

Synnada, Phrygia

Synnada (Suhut, Turkey today) was of considerable importance as a station on the road from Apameia to the north and east. Synnada is said to have been founded by Acamas who went to Phrygia after the Trojan War and took some Macedonian colonists. It enters written history when the Roman consul Gnaeus Manlius Vulso passed through on his expeditions against the Galatians in 189 B.C. After having belonged to the kingdom of the Attalids, it became the capital of a district of the province of Asia. Cicero stayed there for three days on his way to Cilicia. In Strabo's time it was still a small town, but when Pliny wrote it was an important place, being the conventus juridicus for the whole of the surrounding country. Under Diocletian at the time of the creation of Phrygia Pacatiana, Synnada, at the intersection of two great roads, became the metropolis. The city was celebrated throughout the Roman Empire for its precious Synnadic marble, a light color marble interspersed with purple spots and veins, which was traded from Synnada for transport to Ephesus, where it was shipped overseas to Italy.