Gephyra (May 2013)
Parerga to the Stadiasmus Patarensis (10): Teimarchi of Arneai
Abstract
Arneai is a city on the southern slope of Susuz Dağları (mountains poor in water resource: western course of the ancient Masikytos), some 650 metres above sea level. The city's name can nowhere be read with certainty on the Stadiasmus Patarensis. However, Arneai was situated on a crossroads within the road system represented on the Stadiasmos, as is to be expected because of both the extant remains of roads in the region and a well-known inscription mentioning the conversion of a gymnasium into a parochion (public guest-house). The article's focus is on the members of a noble urban family of Arneai, who are more or less comparable with the Dionysii from the neighbouring mountain city of Neisa. The epigraphic material enables distinction between four different Teimarchi amongst the members of this family; one of them even attained the post of Lykiarch and is probably to be identified with Teimarchos III, who presumably lived in the late Antonine period. If so, Archepolis, the Lykiarch of 156 CE, was his father.
