The practice of the imperial cult in Aspendos started during the reign of the Roman emperorTiberius. The first cult organized was for an imperator whose name is still a mystery. The ideafor establishing the cult in the city belonged to the city’s dignitaries who, like those in othercities, undoubtedly used their own initiative. The first time Aspendians encountered imperialcult practices must have been at the cult centres in the province of Galatia, of which they wereformerly a part. These centres included Ancyra, the capital of the province, with its cults ofAugustus and Dea Roma, Iconium and Pessinus with their cult of Tiberius and Pisidian Antiochwith the cult of Julio-Claudian dynasty. The Aspendians must have been inspired by these centresregarding imperial cult worship. In his narration of a murder attempt, Philostratos (Life ofApollonius 1.15) tells about the governor who took refuge by the altars and statues of the emperorsin the agora with the hope of obtaining asylum. However, these should not be relatedwith a cult area. If this place of refuge had been an imperial cult area, the author would havesaid so. In the second century A.D. the emergence of another cult is observed at Aspendos:the cult of Theoi Sebastoi, which encompassed multiple emperors in it. These cults mentionedabove are of a local character.The city became a province-wide centre for the imperial cult most probably in the reign ofGallienus when Aspenos was awarded with the title of neokoros. However, it should be notedthat we currently do not have any evidence regarding a common administration of the imperialcults on a provincial basis in the Pamphylian cities or a common participation in the province.For this issue it can only be said that there existed two koina acting independently of eachother in the province of Lycia-Pampylia. No written evidence cites a phrase as “Pamphyliankoinon” but rather mentions “cities in Pamphylia”, “pamphyliarkhes” and the “people ofPamphylia”, albeit rarely.It is possible to state that Aspendos was never part of the rivalry for titles between Pergeand Side, both of which frequently boasted of their titles of neokoros. Furthermore, it is not difficultto predict the limited importance of Aspendos for the Roman Empire in the second halfof the third century when the titles bestowed on the Pamphylian cities are taken into consideration.This is clearly due to the geo-political, military and economic power of Aspendos, whichlagged behind those of Perge and Side during this period.