Hadrian’s travels

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Chronology of Hadrian’s Journeys

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AD 117–118: Returning to Rome from Syria by way of the north-eastern frontier

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• August 117: Hadrian is in Antioch in Syria when he is proclaimed emperor (read here)
• October 117: Hadrian leaves Antioch
  12 October: Tarsus
  13 October: Mopsucrene (read here)
  14 October: Panhormos
  15 October: Aquae Calidae (read here)
  16 October: Tynna
  17 October: Tyana (read here)
  18 October: Andabalis
• End of October: Ancyra (read here)
• 11 November: Juliopolis (read here)
• End of November: Nicaea (read here)
• Winter 117/118: Nicomedia and Byzantium (read here)

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• Early Spring 118: Moesia Inferior (read here)
• Late Spring 118: Moesia Superior, Pannonia Superior and Inferior, Dalmatia (read here)

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• 9 July: Arrival in Rome (read here)
• 119: Campania (read here)

AD 121–125: 1st voyage

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• After April 121: Gaul: Lugdunum (read here)
• Winter 121/122: Germania Superior: Mogontiacum (read here) – Raetia (read here)
• Spring 122: Noricum (read here) – Germania Inferior (read here)
• June 122: Britain: Londinium, Vindolanda, Pons Aelius, Hadrian’s Wall (read here)
• Autumn 122: Gaul: Nemausus, Apta Julia (read here)
• Winter 122/123: Spain: Tarraco, Legio (read here)

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• 123: Mauretania Tingitana? – Cyrenaica – Crete? – Cyprus? Syria: Antioch-Euphrates – Cappadocian Limes (read here)
• Autumn 123: Trapezus – Pontus: Amisus, Sinope, Amastris (read here)
• 124: Bithynia: Claudiopolis, Nicaea, Nicomedia (read here)
• Spring 124: Thrace: Hadrianopolis, Perinthus (?)
• Summer 124: Asia: Cyzicus – Ilium – Hadrianutherae – Pergamon? – Thyateira – Saittae – Sardis- Smyrna- Erythrai
• 29 August 124: Ephesus
• September 124: Rhodes – Athens – Eleusis
• Autumn 124: Megara – Epidaurus – Troezen – Hermione
• 30 December 124: Argos
• January/February 125: Mantineia – Tegea – Sparta – Corinth
• March 125: Athens – Thespiae – Coronea – Abae – Hyampolis – Delphi
• May 125: Dyrrhachium (20 May?) – Sicily
• August/September 125: Tibur
• March to August 127: Po Valley

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AD 128–134: 2nd voyage

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• June/July 128: Sicilia, Africa Proconsularis
• July 128 : Numidia: Lambaesis (1 July) – Zarai (7 July) – unknown castellum (12/13 July) – Mauretania Caesarensis
• September 128: Athens – Sparta – Athens
• 129: Athens – Eleusis
• March 129: Asia: Ephesus, Miletus – Lycia: Patara – Maeander valley – Tralles
• June/July 129: Phyrgia: Laodicea on the Lycus (29 June), Celaenae (23 July), Melissa – Galatia – Cappadocia: Caesarea or Melitene, Cilicia
• Autumn 129-130: Syria: Antioch (Mt. Casius)
• Spring 130: Syria: Palmyra, Arabia: Gerasa, Petra – Judaea: Jerusalem

• July 130: Gaza
• August 130: Aegyptus: Pelusiumm, Alexandria (before 29 August) – Libyan Desert (September) – Memphis – Oxyrhyncus
• 24 October 130 (?): Hermopolis (death of Antinous)
• 30 October 130: Hadrian founds the city of Antinopolis
• November 130: Thebes/Colossus (18-21 November), Oxyrhyncus (29-30 November)
• December 130: Tebtunis (1 December), Alexandria
• January/March 131: Alexandria
• March/April 131: Antinoupolis
• Late spring/summer 131 (?): Syria: Antioch – Cilicia – Pamphylia: Phaselis – Asia (?): Ephesus – Mysia (?): Hadriani, Hadriania
• Winter 131/132: Achaea: Athens
• Summer 132 (?): Judaea: Jerusalem (Bar Kochba revolt)
• April/May 133: Athens – Macedonia – Thrace (?) – Moesia Superior (?) Dalmatia – Pannonia – Italy – Rome (at latest 5 May 134)

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Source:

• BIRLEY, A.R. (2003). ” HADRIAN’S TRAVELS”. In THE REPRESENTATION AND PERCEPTION OF ROMAN IMPERIAL POWER. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004401631_033

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