Listed 2 sub titles with search on: Information about the place for wider area of: "KYANEAI Ancient city TURKEY" .
City in Lycia, 18 km E of Kas (Antiphellos), 5 km from the coast.
It is listed by Pliny and Hierokles, but otherwise unknown except from coins and
inscriptions. It was nevertheless the principal city in the region between Antiphellos
and Myra and possessed a considerable territory. The coinage is of Lycian League
type and of Gordian III. There are also coins of Rhodes countermarked with a lyre
and the letters KU; these belong presumably to the period of Rhodian possession
of Lycia, 189-167 B.C., and were intended for circulation in the central area.
In Byzantine times the bishop of Kyaneai ranked 36th and last under the metropolitan
of Myra.
The ruins are on a high, steep hill directly above the village. Most
of the circuit wall is well preserved; it is of irregular ashlar of moderate quality
and late date. Many buildings remain in ruined condition and heavily overgrown,
including a large bath building, a library, and many wells and cisterns. The theater,
on a lower summit to the W, is of medium size, with 25 rows of seats and one diazoma;
the retaining wall is of small polygonal blocks, collapsed at either end. Of the
stage building only scanty traces remain. There are countless Lycian sarcophagi
everywhere, and in the precipitous S face of the hill is a well-preserved temple
tomb with a single fluted Ionic column in the porch; farther E in the same face
is a pleasing group of two fine sarcophagi and two house tombs.
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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