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TICHIOUSSA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Tichiussa (Teichioussa), is mentioned twice by Thucydides (viii. 26, 28) as a
fortified place in Caria in the territory of Miletus. Stephanus B. speaks of it
under the name of Teichioessa, and Athenaeus knew it under the name of Teichious
(viii. p. 351.) It seems to have been situated on the north coast of the bay of
Iassus.
Town in Ionia near Kazikli, 26 km SE of Miletos. The town appears
first on the 6th c. statue base of a certain Chares, described as ruler of Teichiusa.
In the Delian Confederacy it is listed as a dependency of Miletos, and is called
by Archestratos a village of Miletos near to the Carians. Thucydides (8.26) and
Athenaeus (351 A) also refer to it as a Milesian possession, and the Spartans
used it as a base for an attack on Iasos (Thuc. 8.28). Later it appears as a deme
of Miletos.
The site is the only pre-Roman one between Didyma and Iasos. It occupies
a low hill barely over 40 m high, surrounded by a massive wall of irregular trapezoidal
masonry 2.6 m thick, of which hardly more than a single course remains above ground;
from its style this wall can scarcely be later than the 5th c. There are five
towers more or less equally spaced, but nothing remains in the interior apart
from a tower of poor masonry standing 1 m high on a hillock. The surface sherds
are characterless.
There are numerous ancient village sites in the neighborhood, and
tombs are common. Some of these consist of a grave chamber sunk in the rock and
covered with large flat slabs of stone; most of the others, and all the epitaphs
yet discovered, are of Roman date.
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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