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PANAMARA (Ancient city) KARIA
Site in Caria 25 km W of Mugla, a dependency of Stratonikeia and home
of the important sanctuary of Zeus Panamaros. Apart from a visit by Philip V,
the sanctuary makes one appearance in history; when Labienus in 40 B.C. failed
to capture Stratonikeia, he made an attack on Panamara, but was foiled by the
miraculous intervention of the deity (Dio Cass. 48.26).
The site, on a hill above Bagyaka, comprises a rectangular enclosure
ca. 100 m square, with a powerful wall of which some 80 m is preserved at the
W angle. A smaller enclosure at the summit contained the sanctuary itself, but
the buildings within are utterly ruined, and the temples of Zeus and Hera have
not been identified. A ruined building some 20 m long in one corner is also of
unknown purpose. The principal festivals celebrated at Panamara were the Panamareia,
the Komyria, and the Heraia.
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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