 Cicero mentions that he passed through Synnada on his way from Ephesus to Cilicia.The city was celebrated throughout the Roman Empire on account of the trade in a beautiful kind of marble, which came from nearby quarries and was commonly called Synnadic marble, though it came properly from a place in the neighborhood, Docimia, whence it was more correctly called "Docimites lapis".This marble was of a light color, interspersed with purple spots and veins.