Εμφανίζονται 2 τίτλοι με αναζήτηση: Πληροφορίες για τον τόπο στην ευρύτερη περιοχή: "ΚΙΝΔΥΗ Αρχ. Πόλη ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ" .
Town in Caria 20 km SW of Milas. It was of some importance in the
5th c., when it paid one talent in the Delian Confederacy, but later, apparently
in the 3d c., was absorbed into Bargylia. Herodotos (5.118) mentions a Pixodaros,
son of Mausolos of Kindya, presumably an ancestor of the Hekatomnids. Strabo (658)
speaks of it as no longer existing. The city was chiefly notable for its principal
deity, Artemis Kindyas, whose temple was believed to be immune from rainfall;
she later became a chief deity of Bargylia.
The ruins are on a steep hill above the village. The city wall enclosed
an area some 450 by 200 m, but large stretches of it are now destroyed. On the
crest is a citadel ca. 120 m long in dry rubble masonry, with a gate at the NW
end and a smaller fortification at the SE end. Traces of ancient buildings extend
some distance down the SW slope. Surface pottery includes sherds of 4th c. date,
but nothing recognizably later.
The site of the temple has been determined by inscriptions and architectural
fragments at a spot near the village of Kemikler some 2 km to the NE, but virtually
nothing is now to be seen above ground.
G. E. Bean, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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