The sociopolitical and sociocultural structure of Synnada (Suhut) in the Roman Imperial Period

According to myths, Synnada, founded by a mythological person named Akamas, is one of the important centers in southwestern Phrygia and settled from the Chalcolithic Age to the Hittite Period. The region came under the sovereignty of Phrygian, Lydian and Persian respectively. Synnada, where Greek culture began to spread with the arrival of Greco-Macedonian colonists in the Hellenistic Period, became an important city during the Roman Imperial Period. Especially the presence of the management office of the marble quarries in Dokimeion has made Synnada a strategic center during the Imperial Period. Synnada, an important episcopal center with the spread of Christianity, was conquered by the Seljuks and was named Suhud/Suhut. Our study consists of three parts. In the first chapter, the sovereignty of Rome in Anatolia and the administrative arrangements are explained in detail. In the second chapter, the sociopolitical and sociocultural structure of the city during the Roman Imperial Period was examined in the light of the information obtained from the inscriptions supported by numismatic and philological sources. In the third section, Testimonia, the Greek inscriptions obtained from Synnada are given as a corpus. Keywords: Rome, Synnada, Suhut, Phrygia, City