This restoration of what was presumably one of the main network axes
is proposed by Miller (664) and Talbert (TPPlace2320)
and seems convincing, despite the occasional doubts of authors about the
geographical locations of some stops along the line.
French proposes to take
Coriopio out of the sequence and make it part of
the Tetrapyrgia Pass instead (see also emendation 9,2:3), based on the putative discovery of Koropissos
(based on a single inscription found at Mut in 1961, see The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites,
Der Neue Pauly). This demands a drastic shift in Coriopio's drawn position.
Even if the Coriopio = Koropissos identification does hold up,
this does not prove that the chartmaker, who sometimes seems hopelessly unreliable
in Anatolia, knew its true location.
The restoration as a thick blue line depicts the heavily used route through Paduando and the Cilician Gates, the lowest pass through the Taurus.
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