Akalissos
Akalissos was an ancient city in the Lycia region of Asia Minor in what is now Turkey.
The city is only mentioned in a few literary sources. According to the inscriptions, Akalissos belonged to the Lycian League and was the leading place of a sympolitie to which Idebessos and Kormi belonged. After the reign of Emperor Commodus , the city was called Neokoros , although it is not clear which deity Akalissos was the temple guardian. This fact is unusual for a rather medium-sized city in Lycia, where only Patara comes across as a double Neokoros.
In the 3rd century AD under Gordian III. the city minted its own coins. In Byzantine times, Akalissos was the seat of a bishop; the titular bishopric of Acalissus of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to the diocese .
Only a few ruins of the city have been preserved, which is located in the inaccessible mountain region north of today's Kumluca . There are some sarcophagi and rock tombs .
literature
- Gustav Hirschfeld : Akalissos . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, column 1142.
- Ernst Kalinka (ed.): Tituli Lyciae linguis Graeca et Latina conscripti. Regiones montanae a valle Xanthi fluminis ad oram orientalem (= Tituli Asiae Minoris. Volume 2, fascicle 3). Vienna 1944, # 878. - 898 (more mentions of Acalissus found in the inscriptions of Idebessos, # 824. -877).
- George Ewart Bean : Akalissos, Lycia, Turkey . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
- Hansgerd Hellenkemper , Friedrich Hild: Lykien and Pamphylien. (= Tabula Imperii Byzantini 8.) Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3280-8 , p. 422.
Web links
- Akalissos in the Encyclopedia of the Hellenic World - Asia Minor
- Coins of Akalissos
- Akalissos at Pleiades
Individual evidence
- ↑ TAM II 879.
Coordinates: 36 ° 32 ' N , 30 ° 13' E