Editing Colossae (section)

==Origin and etymology of place name==

The medieval poet [[Manuel Philes]] incorrectly said that the name ''Colossae'' was connected to the [[Colossus of Rhodes]].<ref name="Cad-Train">Cadwallader, Alan H., and Michael Trainor (2011). "Colossae in Space and Time: Overcoming Dislocation, Dismemberment and Anachronicity". In Cadwallader and Trainor, eds. ''Colossae in Space and Time: Linding to an Ancient City.'' Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. pp. 18–19.</ref> More recently, in an interpretation that ties Colossae to an Indo-European root that happens to be shared with the word ''kolossos'', Jean-Pierre Vernant has connected the name to the idea of setting up a sacred space or shrine.<ref>Vernant, Jean-Pierre (2006) [1965]. ''Myth and Thought Among the Greeks''. Third edition of a translation from the French originally published in 1983, from a French work published in 1965. Zone Books. p. 321.</ref> Another proposal relates the name to the Greek ''kolazo'' 'to punish'.<ref name="Cad-Train" /> Others said the name derives from the manufacture of its dyed wool, or ''colossinus''.<ref name="autogenerated47">Trainor, Michael, ''Colossae - Colossal In Name Only?'' [[Biblical Archaeology Review]], March/April 2019, Vol. 45, No. 2, p. 47.</ref>