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Location

  • Türkiye, Kaleici
  • geo:36.881248,30.703671

Period or year

  • 1xx / unknown

Classification

  • watchtower
  • Visible

Identifiers

Attalea Hidirlik Tower

data access 11907

Roman period tower of the II.nd century AD. Originally built on a square plan and shortly rebuilded. This two storey building is almost 14 (13,7) meters high. George E. Bean rejects sugestion that it could be lighthouse or defensive tower. He regards the form of the roud tower on the square base, whuch is characteristic of stately type of Roman tomb or mausoleum. Besides, the bundle of rods- fasces, which were the symbol of office of a Roman consul, without which the consul never appeared in public, suggests that it was the tomb of a Roman authority figure - consul or senator1

Sorces:

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C4%B1d%C4%B1rl%C4%B1k_Tower
  2. George E. Bean, Turkey`s Southern Shore 2nd ed., John Murray Ltd, London 1989, p.21-24
  3. Karl  Lanckoroński,  Städte Pamphyliens und Pisidiens (Band 1): Pamphylien, Wien, 1890

References

  1. ↑George E. Bean, Turkey`s Southern Shore 2nd ed., John Murray Ltd, London 1989, p. 22

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Use and reuse

Creators: Entry created by Randal Gilbert (2012-12-31) , last updated by p. jeffries (2026-10-17), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/11907
Data downloads: KML, RDF
Suggested citation: Gilbert, R. and Jeffries, P. (2026) Attalea Hidirlik Tower. Vici.org: archaeological atlas of antiquity. https://vici.org/vici/11907, accessed 2026-11-15.