City
Synnada
Şuhut
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Synnada, today Şuhut in Turkey, was a Phrygian town that lent its name to a famous marble. The stone was quarried at nearby Dokimeion, yet the Romans called it Synnadic marble, as the Greek geographer Strabo notes, and in the first three centuries AD the town ran these imperial quarries. The map, oddly, puts Dokimeion on the wrong side of it. Already under the Republic Synnada was the seat of a judicial district, where Cicero spoke from the judge's seat. The road label beside it leaves a gap for the large red letter I of Phrygia.