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Cormassa

? Kozluca Höyük

Cormassa, more usually Kormasa, bears a Phrygian name and probably lay at the mound of Kozluca Höyük on the river Lysis, commanding a plain on the road from the Maeander valley to the Pamphylian coast. That road is old: a Seleucid general marched along it in 218 BC, Rome set milestones on it in 129 BC, and the Via Sebaste of 6 BC probably followed it, as a milestone found nearby suggests. In 189 BC the consul Manlius took the town with rich booty, as Polybius and Livy tell. Close by stood a Sebasteion, a shrine of the imperial cult.

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