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A Greek city on the W bank of the Dniester liman near Belgorod-Dnestrovskii.
It is mentioned in ancient sources (Strab. 7.3.16; Ptol. 3.10.8; Ps. Skyl. 68;
Steph. Byz. and Anon. Peripl. 88.62). Founded in the 6th c. B.C., it was destroyed
by the Getae in the mid 1st c. B.C. The city recovered, was replanned, and was
destroyed again ca. 240 A.D., probably by the Goths.
Excavation has been hampered by thick mediaeval strata, but there
are remains of buildings with cellars from the 4th c. B.C. and some dwellings
of later eras. Parts of an ancient defensive wall with a circular tower (probably
2d c. A.D.) have been excavated, and from the same century a broad street with
rows of houses on either side. During this period Legio I Italica was stationed
in Tyras as well as Legio V Macedonia and Legio XI Claudia.
Pottery is represented by Ionian wares from the 6th c. B.C. and red-figured
Attic wares from the 5th c. From the 3d c. B.C. on, relief wares from Asia Minor
predominate. The city minted its own coins from 360 B.C. The Hermitage and Kiev
Museums contain material from the site.
M. L. Bernhard & Z. Sztetyllo, 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.
Tyras (Turas, Ptol. iii. 10. § 16), a town of European Sarmatia, situated at the mouth of the river just described. (Herod. iv. 51; Mela, ii. 1.) It was originally a Milesian colony (Scymn. Fr. 55; Anon. Peripl. P. Eux. p. 9); although Ammianus Marcellinus (xxii. 8. § 41), apparently from the similarity of the name, which he writes Tyros, ascribes its foundation to the Phoenicians from Tyre. Pliny (iv. 12. s. 26; cf. Steph. B. p. 671) identifies it with an older town named Ophiusa (gelidis pollens Ophiusa venenis, Val. Flacc. vi. 84). Ptolemy, however (l. c.), makes them two different towns; and places Ophiusa somewhat more N., and towards the interior. Scylax knows only Ophiusa, whilst the later writers, on the other hand, knew only Tyras. (Cf. Neumann, Die Hellenen im skythenlande, p. 357, seq.) It probably lay on the site of the present Ackermann. (Clarke,> Travels, ii. p. 124; Kohl, Reisen in Sudrussland, i. 167.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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