Amyzon

Amyzon was an ancient city in the Caria region of Asia Minor . The ruins are located under the name Mazın Kalesi near today's village of Gaffarlar in the Koçarlı district of the Turkish province of Aydın .

Amyzon was located in the hilly country northwest of Alinda and, according to Strabo, was part of Alabanda's sphere of influence . In the Hellenistic period, the city, which was never very important, was successively allied with the Ptolemies , the Seleucids and Herakleia on the Latmos . There are some coins from this period and the Roman Empire. The titular Amyzon of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to a late antique bishopric of the city .

The archaeological remains of the city wall with a height of up to 6 m and an Artemis temple outside the city have been preserved. The French epigrapher Louis Robert carried out excavations in Amzyon.

literature

• George Ewart Bean :  Amyzon (Mazın Kalesi) 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 .
• Gernot Lang: Classical Ancient Sites of Anatolia . BoD, 2003, ISBN 3833000686 , pp. 88-89 ( excerpt from Google Books ).
• Louis and Jeanne Robert: Fouilles d'Amyzon en Carie. Tome 1. Exploration, histoire, monnaies et inscriptions. de Boccard, Paris 1983 (not evaluated).

Web links

• Greek inscriptions from Amyzon
• Coins of Amyzon (English)

Coordinates: 37 ° 37 '  N , 27 ° 43'  E