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GAGE (Ancient city) TURKEY
(Gagai). A town on the coast of Lycia, whence came quantities of jet (gagates lithos, Gagates lapis) still called in German gagat.
About 11 km SE of Kumluca. First mentioned by pseudo-Skylax in the
4th c. B.C. The foundation was attributed to Rhodes; according to the story certain
Rhodian sailors arriving in Lycia called out "ga, ga," either as a request
to the natives for land or on sighting land in a storm; they then founded a city
and called it Gagai. Opramoas of Rhodiapolis bestowed on Gagai 8000 denarii and
undertook to pay for baths and certain oracular shrines; of these latter nothing
is heard elsewhere. The coinage includes Hellenistic issues of Lycian League type
and imperial issues under Gordian III.
The ruins are not abundant. The acropolis hill is on two levels; apart
from a fort on the upper level, all the walls and buildings are of late date.
There are no Lycian tombs. At the N foot of the hill is a small theater, poorly
preserved. A single inscription has been found on the site, an honorific decree
for a Gagatan.
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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