Colossae—Colossal in Name Only?

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The once great city of Colossae in modern Turkey has never been excavated. To the untrained eye, the site may appear unimpressive, but great archaeological treasures lie beneath its surface. Join Michael Trainor on an exploration of this ancient city awaiting the spade!

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Footnotes

1. See Mark R. Fairchild, “Laodicea’s ‘Lukewarm’ Legacy: Conflicts of Prosperity in an Ancient Christian City,” BAR, 43;02.

2. Francesco D’Andria, “Conversion, Crucifixion, and Celebration,” BAR, 37:04.

Endnotes

1.
Alan H. Cadwallader and Michael Trainor, eds., Colossae in Space and Time: Linking to an Ancient City (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011), p. 248.

2.
For the full pottery report on the Colossae hüyük, see Bahadir Duman and Erim Konakçi, “The Silent Witness of the Mound of Colossae: Pottery Remains,” in Alan H. Cadwallader and Michael Trainor, eds., Colossae in Space and Time: Linking to an Ancient City (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck Ruprecht, 2011), pp. 247–281.

3.
Tacitus, Annals 14.27.

4.
Guide to Greece, the Archipelago, Constantinople, the Coasts of Asia Minor, Crete and Cyprus, 3rd ed. (London: Macmillan, 1908), p. 195.

5.
Thomas Smith, Remarks upon the Manners, Religion and Government of the Turks Together with a Survey of the Seven Churches of Asia, as They Now Lye in their Ruins, and a Brief Description of Constantinople (London: Moses Pitt, 1678), p. 206.

6.
Duman and Konakçi, “The Silent Witness,” p. 272.

7.
Duman and Konakçi, “The Silent Witness,” p. 271.

8.
Michael Trainor, Epaphras: Paul’s Educator at Colossae (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2008), p. 17.

9.
Alan H. Cadwallader, Fragments of Colossae: Sifting Through the Traces (Hindmarsh: ATF Press, 2015), p. 145.

10.
For a fuller treatment of St. Michael of Chonai, see Cadwallader and Trainor, Colossae, pp. 299–330; Cadwallader, Fragments, pp. 181–202.