Loryma

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Loryma was an ancient city ​​on the Carian Chersonese . It was founded in the 7th century BC. From Rhodes .

settlement

The ruins of the city of Loryma lie at the end of a 1.8 km deep bay, at the southern tip of the Bozburun Peninsula or Loryma Peninsula on the Turkish mainland, within sight of the Greek island and city of Rhodes. With the exception of a small area, the ancient city was never built over. During research, thanks to its relatively good state of preservation, the “city map” could be recorded almost completely without archaeological excavations.

In the vicinity of the ancient settlement, the remains of several sanctuaries, a necropolis and numerous ancient farmsteads have been identified. Thus, in ancient times, the bay, which is now occupied by a maximum of ten huts and restaurants, some of which are only temporarily inhabited, and its surroundings must have been relatively densely populated.

Harbor fortress

The entrance to Loryma Bay is dominated by a mighty, probably Rhodian fortress. This has a length of about 330 meters and a width of about 36 meters. The walls are still up to eight meters high on the lake side and almost two meters on the land side. The walls are solid and completely jointed and are still in almost perfect condition today. From 1995 to 2002 the ruins were examined by Alexander Herda as part of an archaeological survey carried out under the direction of Winfried Held .

Others

The ancient orientalist Rostislav Oreshko identified these in Hittite sources from the 13th century BC. The city of Attarimma was mentioned in the 2nd century BC with a late Bronze Age predecessor settlement of Loryma.
The next ancient settlement - still unexplored today - is on Asar Dağ, about 1.5 km away as the crow flies.
Loryma is also the titular bishopric of the Catholic Church .

literature

  • Winfried Held : Loryma in Caria. Preliminary report on the 1995 and 1998 campaigns , In: Istanbuler Mitteilungen 49 (1999) pp. 159–196.
  • Winfried Held: New and revised inscriptions from Loryma and the Carian Chersonese , in: Epigraphica Anatolica 36 (2003) pp. 55–85.
  • Winfried Held: Loryma ve Karia Chersonesos'unun Verleşim Sistemi , in: Olba 12 (2005) pp. 85-100.
  • Winfried Held: Place, sanctuary and political institutions in Loryma and the Karischen Chersones , in: Wolfram Hoepfner - L. Lehmann (Ed.), The Greek Agora, Symposion Berlin 2003 (2006) 41–52
  • Winfried Held: The Karer and the Rhodian Peraia , in: Frank Rumscheid (Ed.), The Karer and the Others, Colloquium Berlin 2005 (Bonn 2009) 121-134
  • Winfried Held: Cults and sanctuaries in Loryma , in: R. van Bremen - J.-M. Carbon (Ed.), Hellenistic Karia. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Hellenistic Karia, Oxford 2006 , (Bordeaux 2010) 355-377

Remarks

  1. ^ Piotr Taracha: Approaches to Mycenaean-Hititelnterconnections in the Late Bronze Age. In: Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanö, Marek Węcowskl (Eds.): Change, Continuity, and Connectivity: North-Eastern Mediterranean at the turn of the Bronze Age and in the early Iron Age. Harrasowitz, Wiesbaden 2018, p. 18, note 51, who finds this identification convincing; the related Oreshko's article has not yet appeared (see publications on Oreshko's academia.edu website)