Mastaura (Lydia)
Mastaura ( Greek Μάσταυρα ) was an ancient city in the Lydia region of Asia Minor , on the border with Caria . It was located in the south of the Mesogis mountain range (now Aydın dağları ) on the Chrysorhoas , a tributary of the Maiandros , near today's Nazilli in Turkey.
Mastaura is only documented in Roman times, from which some ruins come. Inscriptions attest to the usual municipal bodies ( council , popular assembly , gerusie ). In the stadium of the Carian city of Aphrodisias , seats were reserved for the residents of Mastaura. From the 1st ( Tiberius ) to the 3rd century ( Valerian ) Mastaura minted its own coins. The city belonged to the judicial district ( conventus ) of Ephesus .
In late antiquity, Mastaura was the seat of a bishop who was represented in the 5th century at the councils of Ephesus (431) and Kalchedon (451). The titular bishopric of Mastaura in Asia of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to the diocese .
literature
- Hans Kaletsch : Mastaura. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 7, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01477-0 , Sp. 996.
- Leonhard Schmitz: Mastaura . In: William Smith : Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London 1854.
Web links
- Coins of Mastaura (English)
- Foss, C., G. Reger, DARMC, R. Talbert, S. Gillies, J. Åhlfeldt, T. Elliott: Places: 599790 (Mastaura) . Pleiades. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
Remarks
- ^ Strabo 14, 1, 47 .
- ↑ Le Bas-Waddington 1663c ; 1664 .
- ↑ Charlotte Roueché : Performers and Partisans at Aphrodisias (= Journal of Roman Studies Monograph. 6). London 1993, No. 45, 4, O ; Joyce Reynolds , Charlotte Roueché, Gabriel Bodard: Inscriptions of Aphrodisias (IAph2007), No. 10.4 .
- ^ Pliny , Naturalis historia 5, 120 .
Coordinates: 37 ° 57 ' N , 28 ° 21' E