A famous Latin epigraph from Tymandos (Pisidia) – which bears the text of an imperial letter granting the inhabitants the right to establish a civitas – is set in close connection with three other inscriptions from Kolbasa, Termessos and Sagalassos, all Pisidian cities. The comparison allows both to propose a new dating for the epigraph of Tymandos (312/313 or before 324) and to understand the variability of reactions towards Christianity by the urban centres of the same Anatolic region. 

Keywords: Cities, Politics, Society, Christianity, Asia Minor.