Bargylia
Bargylia was an ancient coastal city in Asia Minor landscape Caria at today's today's settlement ( Mahalle ) Boğaziçi the town of Milas in the Turkish province and metropolitan municipality ( Büyükşehir Belediyesi ) Muğla . The city was at the end of a peninsula between the Aegean Sea and a bay that was only connected to the sea by a narrow natural channel. The original name of the city is said to be Andanoshave been. The modern name "Varvil" mentioned in the literature refers to the time of the topographical survey at the end of the 19th century and has disappeared from today's settlement geography.
Bargylia belonged to the Attic League , on whose tribute lists the city in the 5th century BC. Appears. Inscriptions indicate a cult of Alexander and a statue of the king in the gymnasium , which were renewed in the 3rd century AD. In the 3rd century BC BC Bargylia outstripped its neighboring town Kindya . 196 BC Bargylia, which was temporarily under Seleucid rule, was declared free and has belonged to the Roman province of Asia since the Aristonikos uprising . From the 1st century BC until the end of the 2nd century AD Bargylia minted its own coins.
Only a few ruins remain from the city. A Corinthian-style temple stood on the Acropolis of Bargylias , of which only the foundation wall has survived. There are also remains of a theater, a small odeon , a stoa and a Roman aqueduct.
The titular bishopric of Bargylia of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to a late antique bishopric of the city .
The story of the founding of the city is handed down by the historian Apollonios of Aphrodisias in his work on Caria. Accordingly, it was named after Bargylos , who was fatally wounded by Pegasus , the horse of his friend Bellerophon . In his honor, Bellerophon founded the city of Bargylia. Pegasus is depicted on the city's coins.
literature
- George Ewart Bean : Bargylia or Andanos (Varvil) 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 .
- Ludwig Bürchner : Bargylia . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 15 f.
- Wolfgang Blümel : The inscriptions from Iasos . Part 2: No. 219–640 (= inscriptions of Greek cities from Asia Minor . Volume 28, 2). Appendix by Wolfram Weiser : On the coinage of Iasos and Bargylia. Habelt, Bonn 1985, ISBN 3-7749-2170-9 .
- on the location: Heinrich Kiepert : Special map of western Asia Minor after his own travels and other largely unpublished route recordings , Reimer, Berlin 1892, map XI ( digitized, there on the left edge, lower third )
Web links
- Greek inscriptions from Bargylia. Retrieved November 1, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ^ W. Dittenberger: Orientis Graeci Inscriptiones, Selectae , 2 vol. 103/5 (OGI). 3.
- ↑ Christian Habicht : God-humanity and Greek cities . Munich 1970, p. 20.
- ↑ Καρικά frg. 6 corners. = Stephanos Byzantios sv Βαργύλια.
- ^ Karl Tümpel : Bargylos . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 16.
Coordinates: 37 ° 11 ′ 39.7 ″ N , 27 ° 35 ′ 20.9 ″ E