Editing Abydos (Hellespont) (section)

===Roman period===
[[Attalus III]], King of Pergamon, bequeathed his kingdom to Rome upon his death in 133 BC, and thus Abydos became part of the [[Asia (Roman province)|province of Asia]].<ref>Dmitriev (2005), p. 7</ref> The gold mines of Abydos at Astyra or Kremaste were near exhaustion at the time was Strabo was writing.<ref name="Bean"/> The city was counted amongst the ''telonia'' (custom houses) of the province of Asia in the ''lex portorii Asiae'' of 62 AD,<ref>Leveniotis (2017), p. 11</ref> and formed part of the ''[[conventus iuridicus]] [[Adramyttium|Adramytteum]]''.<ref name="Leveniotis8" /> Abydos is mentioned in the ''[[Tabula Peutingeriana]]'' and [[Antonine Itinerary]].<ref>Magie (2017), p. 41</ref> The mint of Abydos ceased to function in the mid-3rd century AD.<ref name="Leveniotis8">Leveniotis (2017), p. 8</ref>

It is believed that Abydos, with Sestos and Lampsacus, is referred to as one of the "three large capital cities" of the Roman Empire in ''[[Weilüe]]'', a 3rd-century AD Chinese text.<ref>Leslie & Gardiner (1995), p. 67</ref> The city was the centre for customs collection at the southern entrance of the [[Sea of Marmara]],<ref name="Foss">Kazhdan (1991) "[http://www.oxfordreference.com.ezproxy01.rhul.ac.uk/view/10.1093/acref/9780195046526.001.0001/acref-9780195046526-e-0024?rskey=9rYfUw&result=1 Abydos]" (C. Foss), pp. 8–9</ref> and was administered by a ''komes ton Stenon'' (count of the Straits) or an ''[[archon#Byzantine Empire|archon]]'' from the 3rd century to the 5th century AD.<ref name="Leveniotis12" >Leveniotis (2017), p. 12</ref>