Limantepe is the site of a prehistoric (Bronze Age) settlement that includes an ancient port dating from 2500 years located underwater offshore. The area is situated in the urban zone of the coastal town of Urla near İzmir. In pre-classical antiquity and during the Hellenistic and Roman eras, it was a Greek town called Larisa.
The archaeological site was discovered by Ekrem Akurgal in 1950, and its exploration has been pursued on land and underwater since 1979 by an international team and many of the artifacts discovered are currently on display in İzmir Archaeology Museum.
- http://www.geocities.ws/irerp_tr/liman.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limantepe
- http://www.focusmm.com/civcty/liman/lim_char.htm
- Vasıf Şahoğlu, Underwater Excavations at Liman Tepe (Clazomenai) – Urla, Turkey , 2010- https://www.academia.edu/1667867/
- idem: The Anatolian Trade Network and the Izmir Region during the Early Bronze Age, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 24 (4), 2005, pp. 339-360
