Lydai
Lydai ( ancient Greek Λύδαι ) is an ancient city in the Carian - Lycian border area on the Kapı Dağ peninsula on the western edge of the Gulf of Fethiye in today's Turkey . It is located about 2.4 kilometers west of Fethiye and has belonged to the Lycian League since Lycia was provincial . Ptolemy leads the city under the name Chydae , the Stadiasmus Maris Magni calls it Clydae and counts it to Caria. The stadiasmus patarensis does not know them.
The family of Gaius Iulius Heliodoros from Lydai, which produced Lycian federal priests, an archiphylax and a Roman senator , is well documented in inscriptions . Arymaxa and Kreneis are known as subordinate urban units ( demos ) of Lydai during the imperial era; in the past they were probably independent communities that joined together with Lydai to form a sympolitie . Extensive ruins from the Roman imperial and early Byzantine periods have been preserved from the city . These include a theater and an agora . Numerous graves and mausoleums are spread over the field of ruins.
literature
- Hans Lohmann : Lydai. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 7, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01477-0 , Sp. 537.
- Werner Tietz : The Gulf of Fethiye. Bonn 2003, ISBN 978-3-7749-3146-6 .
Web links
- George Ewart Bean : Lydai 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 .
Remarks
- ↑ Ptolemy 5,3,2.
- ^ Karl Müller: Geographi Graeci Minores (= Scriptorum graecorum bibliotheca. Volume 45). Volume 1. Paris 1855, p. 494, No. 295 f. ( Digitized version ).
- ↑ Tituli Asiae Minoris 2.1 138.