Pydnai
Pydnai ( ancient Greek Πύδναι , also known under the name Kydna) is a well-preserved Hellenistic fortress around 11 km west of Xanthos in Lycia in what is now Turkey . In the Roman Empire , the fortifications that secured the bay of Xanthos were obviously not used. However, inscriptions found in the area of the complex date from this time. Intensive renovation work on the masonry can be traced back to the early Byzantine period. The ruins of a simple pillar basilica within the fortification walls also date from this period .
The defensive wall of the system is formed as a very neatly worked polygonal masonry . There are eleven towers and seven staircases.
literature
- Jean-Pierre Adam: L'architecture militaire grecque. Édition Picard, Paris 1982, pp. 115-165.
- Jacques Des Courtils: Nouvelles données sur le rempart de Xanthos. In: Revue des études anciennes . Volume 96, 1994, 285-298, here: pp. 294-297 ( online ).
- Jacques Des Courtils : A guide to Xanthos and Letoon: sites inscribed on the UNESCO world heritage list, on the 50th anniversary of the commencement of excavations. Istanbul 2003, pp. 127–129.
- Hansgerd Hellenkemper , Friedrich Hild : Lykia and Pamphylia (= Tabula Imperii Byzantini . Volume 8). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2004, pp. 822–823.
- Thomas Marksteiner: Lycia. An archaeological guide. Phoibos, Vienna 2010. p. 90.
Web links
- George Ewart Bean : Pydnai (Özlen) 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 .
- Hellenistic fortress of Pydnai in the Arachne archaeological database .
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Kalinka : Tituli Asiae Minoris. Volume 2, part 1: Pars Lyciae occidentalis cum Xantho oppido. Vienna 1920, p. 91, No. 257 - 259 .