Ceramos - Keramos was an ancient Carian city, althought is known by the name indentical with the Greek word for pottery or tile (Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. 1985, Volum IX,468)1. The city was Hellenised in the VI century as prooves a statue of Greek type a god-like young man, the archetypal representation of Apollo, currently in Izmir. Ceramus was a mamber of the Delian Confederacy (association of Greek city-states fouded in 477 BC) and later an important member of The Chrysaorian League 2 .
Literature:
- George E. Bean, Turkey Beyond the Maeander. An Archaeological Guide, London Ernest Jersey 1971, pp.53-57
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E. L. Hicks, Ceramus (Κέραμος) and Its Inscriptions, The Journal of Hellenic Studies Vol. 11 (1890), pp. 109-128
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Anthony McNicoll, N. P. Milner, Hellenistic Fortifications from the Aegean to the Euphrates, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1997, pp. 160-164
