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*)ana/zarbon
Adler number: alpha,1866
Translated headword: Anazarbos, Anazarbus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Nerva, emperor of the Romans,[1] when
Diocaesarea, which is in
Cilicia, had been destroyed by an earthquake, sent a senator named
Anazarbos;[2] he rebuilt [the city], once called Kyinda, then
Diocaesarea, and called it
Anazarbos from his own name.
*)ana/zarbon: o(/ti *ne/rbas basileu\s *(rwmai/wn katenexqei/shs u(po\ seismou= *diokaisarei/as, th=s e)n *kiliki/a| keime/nhs, e)/pemye sugklhti- ko\n, o)no/mati *)ana/zarbon, o(\s a)noikodomh/sas au)th\n, pa/lai legome/nhn *ku/i+ndan, ei)=ta *diokaisa/reian, e)k tou= i)di/ou o)no/matos e)ka/lesen *)ana/zarbon.
Notes:
Anazarbos (Barrington Atlas map 67 grid B2) was a city in south-central Asia Minor, near the present-day village of Dilekkaya, Adana Province, modern Turkey. Alternative names for this city are
Caesarea, Ioustinianoupolis, Ioustinoupolis, [Justinianopolis, Justinopolis], and Agrippias.
The Suda follows the account given by John Malalas
Chronographia X.53 Thurn (202-203), which is evidently the source of the entry; cf. Jeffreys et al. (141). The material summarily reappears under
delta 1154 and
kappa 2625.
[1] Reigned 96-98 (
nu 252).
[2] Malalas (op. cit.) gives the senator's name as
Zarbos. He had planned to name the city Nerva, but the emperor died before the reconstruction was complete. It was then decided to name the city
Anazarbos ("dedicated to Zarbos").
Stephanus of
Byzantium Ethnica s.v. Anazarba knows both the city and its "founder" as Anazarba, but gives no history and no alternative names.
References:
J. Thurn, ed., Ioannis Malalae Chronographia, (Berlin 2000)
E. Jeffreys, M. Jeffreys, and R. Scott, trans., The Chronicle of John Malalas, (Leiden 1986)
Keywords: aetiology; biography; geography; historiography; history
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 29 March 2001@15:02:34.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added notes; cosmetics) on 24 July 2001@09:57:45.
Nicholas Fincher (added note) on 15 July 2003@01:10:36.
Nicholas Fincher (changed bracketed name form to enable searches to find names.) on 23 July 2003@06:02:38.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 25 February 2011@09:23:58.
David Whitehead (x-ref; tweaking) on 23 February 2012@04:18:01.
Ronald Allen (added map reference) on 10 April 2018@01:14:44.
Ronald Allen (rearranged notes, added note and bibliography) on 20 May 2026@11:41:04.
Ronald Allen (corrected reference principal note) on 1 July 2026@14:38:57.
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