Pitane
Pitane ( Greek Πιτάνη ) was an ancient city with two ports in the Mysian Aiolis near present-day Çandarlı in Turkey. Pitane was considered the fabulous founding of the Amazones .
Pitane was a member of the Attisch-Delischen Seebund . In 336 BC BC Parmenion besieged Pitane in vain. For 380 talents , Pitane bought himself in 281 BC. By Antiochus I land and remained until 133 BC. Free city in the Pergamene Empire . In the First Mithridatic War fled Mithridates VI. to Pitane and was trapped there by Gaius Flavius Fimbria . At Sulla's instructions , the fleet commander Lucullus let him escape by sea. Pitane suffered severe damage in an earthquake during the Roman Empire.
The Platonic philosopher Arkesilaos and the poet Matron came from Pitane. In Christian times the city was a suffragan of Ephesus .
Pitane was on a peninsula on which a Venetian fort was later built. The excavations of the archaeologist Ekrem Akurgal between 1959 and 1965 are still unpublished. The town itself has not yet been officially excavated, so there are hardly any archaeological finds from there apart from ceramics ( Terra Sigillata ). Remnants of the city wall can be seen, as well as the location of the theater and a presumed stadium. Excavations in the necropolis produced ceramic finds from the Mycenaean , Protogeometric , Geometric , Orientalizing and Archaic times.
A kouros from Pitane from the 6th century BC. BC is exhibited in the Bergama Archaeological Museum .
literature
- Ekrem Akurgal: Pitane (Candarli) 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 .
- George Ewart Bean : Asia Minor . Volume 1. Aegean Turkey from Pergamon to Didyma . 5th edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-17-009678-8 , pp. 114-117.
- Pitane. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 9, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01479-7 , column 1051 f.
- Yasemin Tuna-Nörling: Attic black-figure ceramics and Attic ceramics export to Asia Minor. The excavations of Old Smyrna and Pitane (= Istanbul Research , Volume 41 ISSN 0723-4333 ). Wasmuth, Tübingen 1995, ISBN 3-8030-1762-9 ( dissertation University Heidelberg 1991).
Web links
- Coins of Pitane (English)
Remarks
Coordinates: 38 ° 56 ' N , 26 ° 56' E