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ARNEAI (Ancient city) TURKEY
About 25 km NW of Finike. Rarely mentioned in antiquity, the city
is abundantly identified by its inscriptions and by the evident survival of the
name. Its antiquity is proved by an inscription in the Lycian language, but it
was never important though in Byzantine times its bishop ranked ninth under the
metropolitan of Myra. Arneai was the head of a sympolity of towns, one of which
was named Coroae; the small site, with a Lycian inscription, near Cagman was no
doubt a member of this sympolity. The very rare coins of Arneai are, as usual
in Lycia, of Gordian III. The inscriptions reveal a close association with Myra,
whose territory was adjacent on the S.
The extant ruins are mostly Byzantine. The ring wall still stands
for most of its length, with towers and at least two gates, but the greater part
was repaired in mediaeval times. In the interior are two churches and some unrecognizable
remains of buildings; the public buildings mentioned in the inscriptions, notably
a gymnasium and a public guest house, are not now discernible. From earlier times
there survive a few tombs of Lycian type, some parts of the city wall, and numerous
inscriptions of the Roman period, mostly built into the late wall; one of them
is an ex-voto to a local deity, Tobaloas.
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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