37°20′N30°27′E / 37.333°N 30.450°E /37.333; 30.450Comama was a town in the lateRoman province ofPamphylia Secunda. It has been called Pisidian, not as being in `Pisidia, but as founded on what was the Pisidian frontier of theRoman Empire.[1]
The full title of the town wasColonia Iulia Augusta Prima Fida Comama. The first term in this title indicates that it was founded as acolonia, an outpost established in conquered territory to secure it. The presence of the termAugusta indicates that it was founded after 27 BC, when the Roman senate granted that title to the victoriousOctavian. Comama was one of a group of such settlements established in the area, which were linked by an imperial road called theVia Sebaste, one milestone of which (XLV) has been found at Comama. The milestones were set up in about 6 BC, an indication of the date of foundation of Comama.[1]
The site was at Şerefönü in present-dayTurkey.[2]
Comama minted coins, including some in the reigns ofMarcus Aurelius andAntoninus Pius, whose heads figure on the coins.[3]
Thebishopric of Comama was asuffragan of themetropolitan see ofPerge, the capital of Pamphylia Secunda.[4][5]
The acts of theFirst Council of Constantinople (381) were signed by abishop of Comama of the province of Pamphylia named Hesychius.[6] The bishop Hephaestus (Ephesius according to some manuscripts) who was one of the signatories of the joint letter that in 458 the bishops of the province of Pamphylia Secunda sent toByzantine EmperorLeo I the Thracian regarding the murder ofProterius of Alexandria and the adjectival form of whose see appears asComaneus[7] was probably bishop of Comama.[4] There is no mention of Comama in theNotitiae Episcopatuum of the 7th and 10th centuries.[8]
No longer a residential bishopric, Comama is today listed by the Catholic Church as atitular see.[5]
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