Listed 4 sub titles with search on: Information about the place for destination: "FYSKOS Ancient city TURKEY".
Town in Caria, the most important deme of the Rhodian Peraea, attached
to the city of Lindos. An inscription shows that it was incorporated in the Rhodian
state at least by the mid 4th c. B.C. It fell normally under the command of a
hagemon of Apeiros, Physkos, and Chersonasos, and is the only Peraean deme except
Kedreai to be individually named in a governor's command. Its importance is explained
by its superb harbor. Strabo (652) mentions a grove of Leto at Physkos, and built
into a wall of the castle at Marmaris is a 4th c. dedication to her. Strabo (659)
makes the curious statement that Physkos was the port of Mylasa; the error is
the more surprising as elsewhere (652, 665, 677) he is aware of its true position.
The acropolis was on a hill some 2 km NW of Marman, now heavily overgrown,
but some stretches of wall of Classical and Hellenistic date can be made out.
In Marmaris itself nothing of the ancient city remains standing, but numerous
inscriptions and sculptured blocks have been found there, especially in the Eyliktasi
quarter; some of these are collected at the school. The castle on the low hill
at the S end of the town is mediaeval.
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.
Total results on 4/2001: 10 for Physkos, 8 for Physcus.
(Phuskos). A town of Caria, opposite Rhodes, and subject to that island.
Physcus (Phuskos: Eth. Phuskeus), a town of Caria, in the territory of the Rhodians, situated on the coast, with a harbour and a grove sacred to Leto. (Strab. xiv. p. 652; Stadiasm. Mar. Mag. § 245; Ptol. v. 2. § 11, where it is called Phouska.) It is impossible to suppose that this Physcus was the porttown of Mylasa (Strab. xiv. p. 659); we must rather assume that Passala, the port of Mylasa, also bore the name of Physcus. Our Physcus was the ordinary landing-place for vessels sailing from Rhodes to Asia Minor. (Strab. xiv. p. 663; comp. Steph. B. s. v.) This harbour, now called Marmorice, and a part of it Physco, is one of the finest in the world, and in 1801 Lord Nelson's fleet anchored here, before the battle of the Nile.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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