Kotenna
Coordinates: 37 ° 2 ′ N , 31 ° 38 ′ E
Kotenna ( Greek Κότεννα ) was an ancient city in the east of the Pamphylia region in Asia Minor (sometimes counted as part of Pisidia ) near today's Menteşbey in the Akseki district of the Turkish province of Antalya . The localization is based on an inscription found there and the former place name Gödene, which goes back to the ancient name. A tribe called Katenneis is attested for the region north of Side and Aspendos ; the city could go back to him.
Kotenna is only mentioned in literary sources in late antiquity, but according to the inscriptions it existed as a city at the latest from the 2nd century AD. It formed a community ( sympolitie ) with the western neighboring town of Erymna . The titular bishopric of Cotenna of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to a late antique bishopric of the city . The only noteworthy archaeological remnant is the city wall.
literature
- GE Bean : Kotenna (Monteşbey, formerly Gödene) 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 .
- Friedrich Hild : Kotenna. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 6, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01476-2 , Col. 781.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b George Ewart Bean, Terence Bruce Mitford : Journeys in Rough Cilicia 1964-1968 (= Austrian Academy of Sciences, Philosophy and historical class, memoranda. 102. Ergänzungsbände to Tituli Asiae Minoris. 3). Vienna 1970, 30.12 (b) .
- ↑ See George E. Bean: The Site of Etenna . In: Klio . Volume 52, 1970, pp. 13-16, especially p. 15.