Sipylos (mountains)

Manisa rock relief

The Sipylos ( Greek Σίπυλος ) was the name of a mountain range in Lydia in ancient geography . It was located south of the Hermos , today the Gediz , and north of Smyrna , today's Izmir . In particular, Sipylos was understood to be the eastern Spil Dağı , but the western Yamanlar Dağı was also considered part of the mountain range. To the north of it lay magnesia on the Sipylos .

Kara Göl

On the Sipylos was the Saloë Lake , which had devoured the city of Sipylos and its predecessor Tantalis , the city of the mythical wicked Tantalus . This lake is identified with the Karagöl ("black lake"), a crater lake on the summit of Yamanlar Dağı.

On the slope of Sipylos there is the rock relief of Manisa , described in ancient times , which shows a seated figure. It could be determined as Hittite based on two inscriptions , the interpretation is controversial.

According to Ovid , a later tradition says that Niobe , whose second eldest son also bears the name Sipylos (Metamorphoses VI, 231), comes from Mount Sipylus and remained petrified there (Metamorphoses VI, 149).

literature

Ludwig Bürchner : Sipylos. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III A, 1, Stuttgart 1927, Col. 275-281.
Thomas Ganschow: Sipylos . In: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Volume 000007VII, Zurich / Munich 1994, p. 778.
Eckart Olshausen : Sipylos. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 11, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01481-9 , Sp. 591.
Mirjo Salvini: Sipylos. In: Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Aräologie (RlA) Volume 12, 7./8. Delivery, De Gruyter 2011, pp. 550f. - online at Academia.edu

Individual evidence

↑ Pliny the Elder Naturalis historia 2.93; 5.31. Pausanias 7:24:13
↑ Walther Schönfeld : Introduction. In: Girolamo Fracastoro : Syphilidis sive morbi gallici libri tres in the translation by Ernst Alfred Seckendorf (1892–1941), Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel 1960 (= series of publications of the Nordwestdeutsche dermatologische Gesellschaft, 6), pp. 5–23; here: p. 9

38.567136 27.454827Coordinates: 38 ° 34 ' N , 27 ° 27' E

[1] Pliny the Elder Naturalis historia 2.93; 5.31. Pausanias 7:24:13

[2] Walther Schönfeld : Introduction. In: Girolamo Fracastoro : Syphilidis sive morbi gallici libri tres in the translation by Ernst Alfred Seckendorf (1892–1941), Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel 1960 (= series of publications of the Nordwestdeutsche dermatologische Gesellschaft, 6), pp. 5–23; here: p. 9