Arneai
Arneai ( Greek Ἀρνεαί ) was an ancient and Byzantine city in the Lycia region of Asia Minor , which was near Ernez in the southwest of what is now Turkey.
The city is only mentioned in a few written sources. Numerous inscriptions , however, allow references to the history. Arneai was the suburb of a sympolitie of nearby Lycian places. It was under the influence of the neighboring Myra . Under Gordian III. Arneai minted his own coins. In late antiquity it was the seat of a bishop who was subordinate to the Metropolitan of Myra. The titular bishopric Arneae of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to the diocese .
The remains of the city date mainly from the early Byzantine period, including the well-preserved city wall with towers and two gates as well as two churches within the city. Another church building was to the west outside the city walls. All three were three-aisled basilicas with a round apse in the east as a sanctuary. At the third church, of which only small remains of the foundation wall have been preserved, an unusual further round apse emerged from the eastern south wall, which was possibly the grave of the founder.
literature
- George Ewart Bean: Arneai (Ernes) 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 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Grossmann, Hans-Georg Severin : Early Christian and Byzantine Buildings in Southeastern Lycia. Results of two surveys ( Istanbul Research 46). Ernst Wasmuth, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-8030-1767-X , pp. 114–116.
Coordinates: 36 ° 27 ' N , 29 ° 52' E