Gagai

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Gagai is an ancient city ​​in the southeast of the Lycian Peninsula in the Antalya Province of Turkey . Dioscurides connects her name with occurrences of gagat , which he mentions in his materia medica . The older Pliny also knows the lapis Gagates , the "Gagat stone", from the Lycian Gagai.

Gagai is mentioned as a polis in the periplus of the pseudo-skylax . Gagai also appears as a station in the Stadiasmus Patarensis from the time of Emperor Claudius . Pliny counts Gagai to the mountain settlements in the area of Olympos .

literature

  • Nevzat Çevik, Süleyman Bulut: The Rediscovery of GAGAE / 'GAXE' in the South-east Corner of Lycia. New Finds from the Total Surface Surveys. In: Adalya - The Annual of the Suna & İnan Kıraç Research Center for Mediterranean Civilizations. Volume 11, 2008, pp. 63-98 ( online ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pedanios Dioscurides, De materia medica 5,128,2.
  2. ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 5,100 f.
  3. ↑ Pseudo-Skylax, Periplus 100.
  4. ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 5,100 f.