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City in Caria, on the island of Sehiroglu or Sedir Ada, 16 km N of
Marmaris. The city was independent in the 5th c. B.C., paying a tribute of half
a talent, later reduced to a third, in the Delian Confederacy. In 405 it was attacked
by Lysander, who captured it at the second attempt and enslaved the inhabitants;
these are described by Xenophon (2.1.15) as semibarbarian. At an uncertain date
in the Hellenistic period Kedreai was incorporated into the Rhodian Peraea, and
formed one of the more important Rhodian demes. So far as is known the independent
city issued no coinage. The principal deity was Apollo, with the epithets Pythios
and Kedrieus.
The island is less than 1 km long, divided in the middle by a narrow
isthmus. The W half is bare; the E is surrounded, just above the water, by a strong
ashlar wall with towers. Near the summit stood a Doric temple, apparently that
of Apollo, but only the foundations are preserved; it stands on a terraced platform
with a solid wall. The site was later occupied by a Christian church. On the N
slope is the theater, well preserved but overgrown and partly buried; the cavea
had nine cunei but no diazoma. The agora also is overgrown, but its supporting
wall remains in fine condition. On the mainland opposite the island, across some
200 m of water, is a fairly extensive necropolis comprising built tombs and sarcophagi.
The stadium whose existence is implied by the agonistic inscriptions has not been
located. Like most of the Peraean demes, Kedreai was neglected by the ancient
geographers, though Stephanos quotes it from Hekataios, and it does not appear
in the Byzantine bishopric lists.
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.
On the island of Sehiroglu or Sedir Ada, 16 km N of Marmaris.
Cedreae (Kedreai, Kedreiai: Eth. Kedreates. Kedraios), a city of Caria,
mentioned by Hecataeus. (Steph. s. v. Kedreai.) Lysander took the place, it being
in alliance with the Athenians. The inhabitants were michobarbaroi, a mixture
of Greeks and barbarians, as we may suppose. It was on the Ceramicus gulf in Caria;
but the site is unknown. (Xen. Hell. ii. 1. 15)
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