9,3:1 Cilicia

This line peters out in Cilicia under the number XXX after crossing the sketch of the Taurus range. The left-hand end of the line (colored orange in my edition) has already been discussed in emendation 9.2:2.

Miller 692 emends the right-hand line, continuing it to Tarsus, and speculates (667) that space may have been cleared but never filled after an editor devised an unfinished plan to show Tarsus as a six-towered city. See also his figure 220 (Richtigstellung, col 665, above).

Hild ("endet die Straße nach Überquerung des Taurus in der kilikischen Ebene") and French both regard the line from In monte tauro as properly continuing to Tarsus.

Only Talbert differs on this, suggesting an alternative onwards link from In monte tavro to Pompeiopolis, but admits: "Continuation to Pompeiopolis is no more than conjecture [TPPlace2337]." Talbert's conjecture is not implausible, though it interferes with the ductus of the line, adding a new kink.

Miller's interpretation (visualized in his sketch 220, above) remains the more attractive one, especially as it comes with a wider context, treating this line as an alternative itinerary out of Tarsus towards the north.

There are three possibilities here: a more-or-less complete duplication of the main Pylai Kilikiai route through the Gülek Pass with different stations named, a partial duplication with a detour to avoid tollgates at the pass, or, the least plausibly, the obstinate use of some minor crossing over the High Taurus.

This itinerary appears to end at Baratha (emendation 9,2:2). The direction of this travel - with one's back to the sea - is clear from the designation Fines Cilicie: a seaward journey would surely have marked such a point as a limit of Cappadocia, not of Kilikia.