KOMAMA
(Şerefönü) Turkey.
City in Pisidia
near Ürkütlü, 45 km S of Burdur, which first appears in
the late Hellenistic period when it issued autonomous
bronze coins. It belonged no doubt to the commune
Milyadum mentioned by Cicero (
Verr. 1.95), and may
have been its capital. A colony was planted by Augustus
about 6 B.C., entitled Colonia Julia Augusta Prima Fida
Comama. As the site is on flat ground and completely
unfortified, it seems to have been intended not so much
to repress the unruly Pisidians as to serve as a market
town spreading Roman influence by peaceful means; it
was well situated near the junction of several important
thoroughfares. The colonial coinage is of the 2d and 3d c.
A.D.
The surviving ruins are scanty. They lie on and around
a hillock and consist merely of scattered blocks, some
of which are inscribed and confirm the site. Nothing is
standing. Many other cut blocks and inscriptions have
been removed to neighboring villages.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
W. M. Ramsay,
AJA 4 (1888) 263;
A. Woodward,
BSA 16 (1909) 85; G. E. Bean,
AnatSt
10 (1960) 53-55.
G. E. BEAN
