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1. Map of Roman Bithynia (Inger Bjerg Poulsen)

2a. Nikaian bronze coin showing the city’s founder, Dionysos, returning from India in an elephant quadriga (Tom Vossen)

2b. Prusan bronze coin showing “Prusias, the founder of Prusa” (American Numismatic Society)

3a. Nikomedian bronze coin of the reign of Commodus (Gorny & Mosch, Giessener Münzhandlung)

3b. Nikomedian bronze coin of Philip the Arab, showing a square-rigged ship (Alexandre de Barros collection)

4. The southern wall of Prusa (author’s photo)

5. Nikaia seen from the east (author’s photo)

6. Detail of the Tabula Peutingeriana (Staatsbibliothek, Vienna)

7a. Bronze coin of the Bithynian koinon, struck under Hadrian (Münzen und Medaillen Deutschland)

7b. Nikomedian bronze coin of Valerian, Gallienus and Valerian II (Classical Numismatic Group)

8. Map of Nikaia (Inger Bjerg Poulsen)

9. Remains of the southern wall of Nikomedia’s citadel in the Medrese Sokak (author’s photo)

10. The course of the late antique east wall (author’s photo)

11. Map of Nikomedia (Inger Bjerg Poulsen)

12. Map of Prusa (Inger Bjerg Poulsen)

13. “Gate 6” may be a remnant of Nikaia’s Hellenistic defense perimeter (author’s photo)

14. A negative impression of the Hadrianic walls of Nikaia (author’s photo)

15. North (Istanbul) gate of Nikaia seen from the inside (Jesper Majbom Madsen)

16. Elevation of the North (Istanbul) gate of Nikaia (Dalman, Fick & Schneider 1938)

17. The east (Lefke) gate of Nikaia, seen from the outside (author’s photo)

18. The sarcophagus of Aurelius Vernicianus and his wife Markiane. Izmit museum (author’s photo)

19. Inscription honouring the emperor Trajan, dedicated by the city secretary (grammateus) T. Flavius Silôn. Bursa Museum (author’s photo)

20. Unfinished inscription, now in the garden of Bursa Museum (author’s photo)

21. Inscription in honour of Marcus Domitius Paulianus Falco in the ancient theatre of Konuralp (author’s photo)

22. The obelisk-like monument of the Nikaian notable Cassius Philiskos (author’s photo)

23. Detail of the monument, showing recesses in the side of the vertical stone face (author’s photo)

24. Inscription on the rear face of the monument giving the name, age and filiation of Cassius Philiskos (author’s photo)

25. The inscription over the east (Lefke) gate of Nikaia. At the end of the second line, the name of Cassius Chrestos in the genitive (author’s photo)

26. The sarcophagus of C. Cassius Chrestos in the garden of Iznik Museum (author’s photo)

27. Seated statue of a philosopher, Bursa museum (author’s photo)

28. Prusan notable of the Roman period. Bursa museum (author’s photo)

29. The theatre of Nikaia (Jesper Majbom Madsen)

30. Sesterce from the mint of Rome. The reverse shows the tychê of the city kneeling before the emperor Hadrian, restitutor Nicomediae (Leu Numismatik AG)

31. The biography of Flavius Severianus Asklepiodotos, a rich notable of Nikaia in the early third century. Iznik Museum (author’s photo)

32. Despite later reconstructions and repair work, the still standing third-century walls of Nikaia give a good impression of the defences of a late Roman city (author’s photo)

33. The south gate of Nikaia (author’s photo)

34a. Nikaian coin of Gallienus (AD 253-268) showing the new walls of Nikaia, with large towers flanking the gates (Numismatik Lanz, Munich)

34b. Nikaian coin from the brief reign of Macrianus (AD 260-261) showing a similar bird’s eye view of Nikaia (Classical Numismatic Group)

35. Justinian’s bridge west of Nikaia (Jesper Majbom Madsen)