Tekkadın
Coordinates: 36 ° 29 ′ 14 ″ N , 34 ° 0 ′ 26 ″ E
Tekkadın (also Takkadın , formerly Takadyn ) is the Turkish name for the ruins of a Roman - Byzantine settlement in Rough Cilicia (Kilikia Tracheia) in southern Turkey . It is possibly identical to the Byzantine bishopric Prakana (Πρáκανα).
location
Tekkadın is located in the district of Silifke in the Turkish province of Mersin , about twelve kilometers north of Silifke and about as far west of Kızkalesi . From the eastern end of the former harbor bay of ancient Korasion , today Atakent , a road leads over Türkmenuşağı into the mountainous hinterland, past the ruins of Paslı and Mezgit Kalesi to Olba and Diokaisareia , today Uzuncaburç . Two kilometers after Paslı, on the left of the road, on a steep slope to the Yenibahçe Deresi valley, at an altitude of between 650 and 700 meters, are the ruins of Tekkadın. On the opposite side of the gorge is the Barakçıkale ruin complex .
description
The small town consisted of about a hundred houses and covered an area of about 200 × 400 meters on a rock spur protruding into the valley. Access to the east is via a paved path past sarcophagi , one of which is adorned with an impressive lion sculpture. The remains of a church can be seen a little further west on a knoll. It was a three-aisled columned basilica with an apse to the east. This has a small window in the axis and was encased in a rectangular shape on the outside. To the side and behind the apse were side rooms. The finely toothed acanthus of the found capital fragments gives a clue for the dating of the church building to the end of the 5th to the beginning of the 6th century. Then the area opens to the west, at the western end of the spur the polygonal remains of an ancient fortification are surrounded by mighty ashlar masonry. Mortar- paved Spolia blocks in the south of the walls are from the High Middle Ages . In the north and south, the area of the small town extends with residential houses, partly made of polygonal masonry, partly in cuboids, including some oil presses. In the south there is another single-nave chapel from the 5th / 6th centuries on the slope. Century, of which no architectural jewelry has survived. To the west lies a necropolis with rock tombs, sarcophagi and chamosoria (sarcophagi carved into the rock). It extends up to the southern opposite slope.
Apse of the basilica
Roman houses
Roman house
Sarcophagi
interpretation
Tekkadın is seen as a possible location for the Byzantine city of Prakana. A Bishop Manzon of Prakana attended the Second Council of Nikaia in 787 . However, he is also listed as Bishop of Diokaisareia, which is why Prakana is often equated with it. In a notitia of the 9th century, however, Prakana is listed as an independent diocese next to Diokaisareia. The place was conquered by the Seljuks in the 12th century , later fell to the Kingdom of Lesser Armenia under Leo II and returned several times to the Seljuks and Armenians. Another suggested localization for Prakana is Meydan Kalesi, on the other side of the Yenibahçe Deresi.
literature
- Friedrich Hild , Hansgerd Hellenkemper : Kilikien and Isaurien. Tabula Imperii Byzantini Volume 5. Publisher of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7001-1811-2 , pp. 424-425.
- Semavi Eyice : Some Byzantine small towns in the Rough Cilicia In: 150 years of the German Archaeological Institute 1829–1979. Ceremonies and international colloquium 17. – 22. April 1979 . Von Zabern Mainz 1981, ISBN 3-8053-0477-3 , pp. 204-209.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedrich Hild, Hansgerd Hellenkemper, Gisela Hellenkemper-Salies: Kommagene - Kilikien - Isaurien In: Klaus Wessel , Marcell Restle : Reallexikon zur Byzantine Kunst Volume IV. Anton Hersemann Stuttgart 1990 ISBN 3-7772-9018-1 , p. 241
- ↑ Friedrich Hild, Hansgerd Hellenkemper: Kilikien and Isaurien. Tabula Imperii Byzantini Volume 5. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7001-1811-2 , p. 385.