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and Waelkens, 1982: 155). This inscription might possibly suggest the existence
of a sculptural school at Docimeum that produced both sculptures and Asiatic
sarcophagi (Hall and Waelkens, 1982: 153).
Another piece of supporting evidence Waelkens used for proving that
Docimeum was the production centre of the columnar sarcophagi is that the
number of sarcophagi found in Phrygia is higher than the other regions, including
Pamphylia (Waelkens, 1982: 9). The number of columnar sarcophagi found in
each region of Asia Minor is given below in Table 1:
Table 1- Number of Asiatic Columnar Sarcophagi found in various
regions.
Phrygia 62 Lycia 8
Pamphylia 44 Lebanon 4
Bithynia 24 Cilicia 3
Italy 23 Athens 2
Unknown 19 Caria 1
Lydia 11 Lycaonia 1
Galatia 11 Dalmatia 1
Pisidia 9 Mysia 0
Ionia 8 Total 231
Recent support for the location of a sarcophagus workshop in Docimeum
are the four unfinished sarcophagus lids found in the quarries there (Fant, 1985:
655- 662). One of the lids is thought to be post-Roman, while the other three are
kline lids, probably intended for columnar sarcophagi (Fant, 1985: 658-59).
Although no sarcophagus chest has been found at the quarries, it is assumed that
the chests must have been produced together with the lids to ensure that they
fitted each other (Fant, 1985: 659). These finds clearly support the suggestion that
the location of the production centre was in Phrygia, rather than in Pamphylia, as
H. Wiegartz suggested (Wiegartz, 1965: 49; Fant, 1985: 659).
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