Fig 1.
General overview of the area of interest.
Data source: Natural Earth [30].
Fig 2.
Transportation network on the west coast of Hellenistic Asia Minor.
Legend: blue lines—maritime routes; red lines—land roads; blue dots—ports; red dots—major Hellenistic cities. Data source: Natural Earth [30]; ORBIS [31]; Pascal Arnaud’s Les routes de la navigation antique: Itinéraires en Méditerranée [32]; Pleiades [34].
Fig 3.
Spatial dissemination of the archaeological evidence related to the Isiac cults.
Legend: orange dots—archaeological evidence of the Isiac temples from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE; light orange dots—artifacts related to the Isiac cults from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE; black dots–nodes (cities/ports). Data source: Natural Earth [30]; ORBIS [31]; Pascal Arnaud’s Les routes de la navigation antique: Itinéraires en Méditerranée [32]; Pleiades [34]; RICIS [4].
Fig 4.
Ptolemaic possessions and places under the direct Ptolemaic influence on the west coast of Hellenistic Asia Minor in the period of interest.
Legend: dark green squares—Ptolemaic possessions with military importance; light green squares—Ptolemaic possessions and places with close diplomatic ties with the Ptolemaic dynasty; black dots–nodes (cities/ports). Data source: Natural Earth [30]; ORBIS [31]; Pascal Arnaud’s Les routes de la navigation antique: Itinéraires en Méditerranée [32]; Pleiades [34]; Roger S. Bagnall’s The Administration of the Ptolemaic Possessions Outside Egypt [18].
Fig 5.
Pairwise correlations among parameters ordered in spearman correlation matrix (data for all major cities).
The diagonal includes the frequency histograms of the analyzed parameters; above the diagonal are their pairwise correlations (Spearman rank correlation coefficients), below the diagonal are dotplots of the variable pairs complemented by non-parametric estimates of their “dependence”.
Fig 6.
Pairwise correlations among parameters ordered in spearman correlation matrix (data for major cities without ports).
The diagonal includes the frequency histograms of the analyzed parameters; above the diagonal are their pairwise correlations (Spearman rank correlation coefficients), below the diagonal are dotplots of the variable pairs complemented by non-parametric estimates of their “dependence”.
Fig 7.
Dendrogram with groups of similar cities with respect to their parameters.
Fig 8.
Analyzed parameters in a broader geographical and political context.
Legend: dark green squares—Ptolemaic possessions with military importance; light green squares—Ptolemaic possessions and places under the direct Ptolemaic influence; orange dots—archaeological evidence of the Isiac temples from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE; light orange dots—artifacts related to the Isiac cults from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE; black dots–nodes (cities/ports); red line—Seleucid royal road; light blue buffer—a 30-kilometer wide belt stretching from the coastline in the area of interest. Data source: Natural Earth [30]; ORBIS [31]; Pleiades [34]; RICIS [4]; Pascal Arnaud’s Les routes de la navigation antique: Itinéraires en Méditerranée [32]; Roger S. Bagnall’s The Administration of the Ptolemaic Possessions Outside Egypt [18]; John Ma’s Antiochus III and the cities of Western Asia Minor [27].