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scription 126 had charge of the province and was involved only
because financial measures were necessary to meet the danger
of famine. The regionary centurion of another inscription 127
is more significant, for it is likely that an administrative region
of the province would be termed dioecesis rather than regio.128
Accordingly, the term "regionary" refers to a region in the
organization of the estates.129 Southeast of Antioch at Kirili
Kassaba there probably existed an estate called Limenia.l30
At Bademli still farther to the southeast an inscription men-
tions an imperial freedman,l31 in a region where land might
easily have been confiscated in the pacification of the moun-
taineers of Isauria and Cilicia. The singularly small amount
of evidence regarding imperial estates in the region of Antioch
suggests that much of the land inherited from Amyntas or
taken in war had been used for colonies; and since Antioch
itself had an extensive territory 132 and citizens of the colony
were curators of the treasury of the sanctuary of Men,133 we
may conclude that much of the land of which the god was
despoiled was given to the colony, which was thereupon charged
with the support of the cult. The imperial estates of this
region were probably much less extensive and important than
has been supposed.
There is good and plentiful evidence for the existence in
Lycaonia of the imperial estates which included the mines of
126 Robinson, T.A.P.A. LV (1924), 7 f.
127 Sterrett, Epig. Jour. Nos. 92 f.; Calder, J.R.S. 1I (1912), 80 f.: eKar6vrapxov
pey,eCovaptov.
128 Cf. K. Lake, in Beginnings of Christianity (London, Macmillan), part i,
Acts of the Apostles v (1933), 231-239, on the Regio Phrygio-Galatica which
Ramsay finds in Acts 16, 6. Strabo says definitely that the Romans disregarded
ethnic divisions in the administration of Asia Minor, xiII, 4, 12.
129 See notes 79 f. and text.
13C I.G.R.P. II, 242 f.; Cronin, J.H.S. xxII (1902), 104; Ramsay, Klio xxuii
(1930), 251-254.
131 C.I.L. III, 12143.
132 See note 123. This would explain adequately why coins and inscriptions
mentioning cities have not been found in much of this rich valley.
133 C.I,L. II, 6839, 6840; Dessau, I.L,S. 7200.