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LYDAI (Ancient city) TURKEY
Site in Lycia, on the promontory of Kapi Dagi, on the W side of the
gulf of Fethiye. The name Lydai is abundantly proved by inscriptions found on
the spot, although the city is mentioned only by Ptolemy (with variant Chydae)
and in the Stadiasmus (where it is assigned to Caria) in the form Clydae. A silver
coin of the 4th c. B.C. inscribed LU has been ascribed to Lydai, but this is doubtful;
otherwise there is no coinage.
The site is approached from the shore on the E by an ancient paved
road still surviving in part. The extant ruins, of Roman and Byzantine date, lie
in a valley running N-S in the center of the headland; on the acropolis hill,
at the S end, is a small fort. A late wall bars the isthmus on the N, but there
is no city wall. The site of the agora is recognizable, and on the hillside to
the W the hollow of a theater is visible, though of the building itself nothing
remains. Otherwise the ruins consist almost entirely of tombs, including a number
of large and handsome mausoleums, fairly well preserved; there is one tomb of
Lycian type. The N part of the site, according to inscriptions, constituted the
deme of Arymaxa.
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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