Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
OLBA, cilt.29, ss.391-422, 2021 (AHCI)
The ancient city of Parion is located in the village of Kerner in the Biga district of canakkale, north of the Troas region. Parion has been one of the cities that the sovereign powers in the region wanted to posess for ages due to its geographical and strategic location and its important commercial port. Founded as a Greek colony in the 8th century BC, Parion became one of the most important colonial cities of the Roman Empire in Anatolia by placing Roman retired soldiers in the city at the end of the Roman Republic Period and giving the status of a Roman colony. This status of the city provided economic development and prosperity and the ancient city of Parion became one of the most Roman cities in the Northern Troas Region. After having the status of a Roman colony, Parion became a city that had a say in both regional trade and political and military fields. As a natural consequence, the excavations carried out in Parion since 2005 yielded important archaeological findings from the Roman Period. One of these archaeological findings is the collectively found 266 coin group on the ground level of the hyposcaenium to the south of the entrance of the stage building during the 2013 excavations in the theater. The emperor of 227 of the coins with higher condition could be read compared to the Late Roman coin finds found during the excavations in the city. Coins of 21 different emperors and 11 mints were dated between the Gallienus and Arcadius Periods, while the majority of the coins were beaten between 310-324 AD. Archaeological remains and finds indicate that the Roman Theater of Parion lost its function at the end of the 4th century AD. It is important that this idea is supported as the latest date of the coins is between 383-392 AD. The aim of this study was to reach new data about the structure of the hyposcaenium at the Roman Theater of Parion in which the coins where found, as well as to get new information on numismatics.