Pinara
Coordinates: 36 ° 29 ′ 20.9 ″ N , 29 ° 15 ′ 30.1 ″ E
Pinara ( Hittite : Pinali , Lycian Pinale , translated "rounded"; Greek Πίναρα ) is an ancient city in Lycia , in southwest Turkey in the valley of the Xanthos . The place is located about 20 kilometers southeast of the city of Fethiye in the district of the same name in the province of Muğla .
She was too Hittite time a center of Lukka Lands . In the Yalburt inscriptions, Pinali is counted among the cities that the Hittite great king Tudḫalija IV (ruled approx. 1237-1215 / 07 BC) took during his campaign against the Lukka lands. Pinara's greatest bloom began in the 6th century BC. BC , so that it could take on a leading role in the Lycian League . In Byzantine times, it apparently fell victim to an earthquake in the 9th century . The rediscovery was made by the British archaeologist Charles Fellows in 1840 .
The area of the settlement is richly covered with partly quite well-preserved buildings that form a necropolis on a hilltop. However, in the past some objects served as a quarry for the nearby town of Minare Köyü.
literature
- Wolfgang Wurster ; Michael Wörrle : The city of Pinara . In: Archäologischer Anzeiger 1978, pp. 74-101.
- George Ewart Bean : Pinara (Minare Köyü) Lycia, 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 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Max Gander: The West. Philology . In: Mark Weeden, Lee Z. Ullmann (Ed.): Hittite Landscape and Geography. Leiden 2017, p. 267.
