9,4:3 Bacataiali

The place marked Bacataiali appears to be a mutatio on the highway crossing the hills between Laodicea and Antiochia. Miller 803 proposes that the figure of 27 miles is the distance separating it from Daphne, south-west of Antioch. In the Antonine Itinerary the stop at a similar place is named as Baccaias. Miller quotes the spelling Bachaias from the so-called Jerome Maps.

The emendation  restores the line into Antioch.

The alternative of a line to Seleukobelos across the Bargylus Mons and onwards to Apamea by way of the road shown in DARE was considered, but that road seems to be of only local importance.

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