Kindya
Kindya or Kindye ( ancient Greek Κινδύη Kindýē ) was an ancient city in Caria , presumably a site near the districts Sığırtmaç (in older sources also Sırtmaç or Sirtmash ) and Üçpınar of Mahalle (district) Dörttepe the town of Milas in the Turkish province and metropolitan municipality ( Büyükşehir Belediyesi ) Muğla . The remains of an acropolis as well as fortifications and buildings can be seen there.
The sanctuary of Artemis Kindyas, named after her, belonged to the city , whose temple, according to the geographer Strabo, was never wetted by rain or snow. At the time of Strabon, the city of Kindye no longer existed, because he only lists this temple in his description of the nearby city of Bargylia and mentions that there was also a city of Kindye earlier. Something similar can be found in a fragment by the historian Polybiusreports where, according to a Bargylian legend, the cult image of Artemis Kindyas standing in the open would not be wetted by rain or snow, which Polybius describes as not credible. In the 16th book of his histories, from which this fragment comes, Polybius deals with the campaigns of King Philip V of Macedonia on the west coast of Asia Minor in 201 BC. BC, which started the Second Macedonian War . Since the sanctuary of Artemis Kindyas is also attributed to the residents of the neighboring city of Bargylia, Kindya apparently no longer existed as a city at this point in time. The city also receives indirect mention of a man named Pixodaros from there from Herodotus , who calls him Kindyeus ("from Kindye"). In addition, there are sparse inscriptions in which the city or one of its inhabitants or the temple of Artemis Kindyas are mentioned. According to the tribute lists of the Attic-Delian League, Kindya paid 100 drachmas tribute.
swell
- Kindya in the PHI Epigraphy database
- Strabon, Geography 14,2,20 (14,658; English )
- Polybios 16,12,3 ( English )
literature
- Pernille Flensted-Jensen: Karia. In: Mogens Herman Hansen , Thomas Heine Nielsen (Ed.): An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, pp. 1108–1137, here pp. 1122 f. No. 902 Kindye .
- Robert Fleischer : Artemis Kindyas . In: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Volume II, Zurich / Munich 1984, pp. 763–764 ..
- George Ewart Bean : Kindya (Siğirtmaç) 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 .