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Antiphellus (Antiphellos: Eth. Antiphellites and Antiphelleites: Antephelo or Andoiflo), a town of Lycia, on the south coast, at the head of a bay. An inscription copied by Fellows at this place, contains the ethnic name Antiphelleitou (Discoveries in Lycia, p. 186). The little theatre of Antiphellus is complete, with the exception of the proscenium. Fellows gives a page of drawings of specimens of ends of sarcophagi, pediments, and doors of tombs. Strabo incorrectly places Antiphellus among the inland towns. Beaufort (Karamania, p. 13) gives the name of Vathy to the bay at the head of which Antiphellus stands, and he was the discoverer of this ancient site. There is a ground-plan of Antiphelius in Spratt's Lycia. There are coins of Antiphellus of the imperial period, with the epigraph Antiphelleiton. Nothing is known of the history of this place.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
The earliest occurrence of the name is in a bilingual epitaph of the
4th c. B.C. found at Kas and half a dozen other Lycian inscriptions, all on tombs,
prove the antiquity of the site. The rise of Antiphellos to importance began in
the Hellenistic age, and by the Roman period it was by far the most important
city of the region. The coinage includes Hellenistic issues of federal and nonfederal
types, and of Gordian III. The city was the seat of a bishopric in Byzantine times.
Antiphellos lies at the base of a narrow promontory running E-W, which
forms on the N side a long sheltered bay known as Bucak Limani (formerly Vathy);
above this the main coast rises almost vertically to a height of some 450 m. Bucak
Limani is, however, only usable with difficulty by sailing vessels, and the harbor
of Antiphellos, like that of Kas, lay on the other, seaward side of the isthmus.
It is protected by a reef which may also be partly artificial, but is suitable
only for small boats. A stretch of ancient sea wall runs along the S side of the
promontory.
The principal ruins are on the rising ground of the promontory to
the W of the modern town. On the S side, not far above the shore, are the foundations
and lower parts of a small temple in elegant masonry. Farther to the W is the
theater, small but well preserved, of Hellenistic date. The retaining wall is
of regular bossed ashlain and encloses 26 rows of seats divided by four stairways
into three cunei. There seems never to have been a permanent stage building. On
the E slope of the hill is an unusual square tomb, cut out of the rock, damaged
in its upper paint; the grave inside is decorated with a frieze of 25 dancing
figures.
Tombs are numerous, especially on the slopes of the hills to the W
and N of the town, and at the head of Bucak Limanl. In the town itself, on the
E side, is a particularly fine Lycian sarcophagus on a high base, with a long
inscription (possibly poetic) in the peculiar dialect of Lycian which occurs also
on the well-known pillar tomb at Xanthos. On the hillside to the N is a rock tomb
with a Lycian inscription to which has been added later another in Latin. Many
sarcophagi of later type are scattered over the site, and many more have been
destroyed in modern times.
Across the water from Kas, in the SE corner of the bay, is the little
harbor of Bayindir Limani, and on the hill directly above is a small city site
of which the ancient name was apparently Sebeda. It has a wall of neat polygonal
masonry and a number of sarcophagi, one of which carries a Greek epitaph with
a fine of 10,000 drachmai, payable to Phellos, for violation of the tomb. In the
cliff face above the harbor are two or three rock-cut tombs, one having an inscription
in Lycian. There is no water on the site and virtually no arable land.
G. E. Bean, 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.
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