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Location:

  • Türkiye, Kapıkargın
  • geo:36.67149,28.822929
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -2xx / unknown

Class:

  • Castle
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=103711

Annotations

  • ''The acropolis hill was defended by a wall partially preserved, of regular ashlar; in the south face of this are built the inscriptions naming the city, the surface of the blocks being smoothed to receive the writing.They are honorific decrees dated by the regnal years of Ptolemy II and Ptolemy III in the 3rd. century BC.''  (G. E. Bean)1

References

  1. George E. Bean, Lycian Turkey: An Archaeological Guide, London John Murray Publishers Ltd 1989,


Nearby

Kapıdağ Peninsula (Arymaxa) (4 km)

''Cleopatra’s Bath'' Byzantine period bath house

Taşyaka (Krya) (4 km)

''Lycian rock cut tombs''


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