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Euromus (Euroomos: Eth. Euromeus, a town in Caria, at the foot of
Mount Grion, which runs parallel with Latmus, was built by one Euromus, a son
of Idris, a Carian. (Strab. xiii. pp. 636, 658; Steph. B. s. v.; Polyb. xvii.
2; Liv. xxxii. 33, xxxiii. 30, xlv. 25.) Under the Roman dominion Euromus belonged
to the conventus of Alabanda. (Plin. v. 28.) Ruins of a temple to the north-west
of Alabanda are considered by Leake to belong to Euromus. (Asia Min. p. 237.)
Town in Caria, 13 km NW of Milas. It figures in the Athenian tribute
lists as Hyromos or Kyromos, with a tribute of 2500 drachmae, raised in 425 B.C.,
no doubt unrealistically, to 5 talents. In Herodotos (8.133-35) the Carian Mys
is described as a man of Europos, and Stephanos also records a Carian city of
Europos; in these and other cases Euromos seems certainly to be meant. The place
was occupied by Philip V during his Carian campaign, but in 196 B.C. he was required
by the Senate to withdraw his garrison. When Mylasa revolted in 167 against Rhodian
suzerainty, she began by seizing the cities in Euromos; from this expression of
Polybios it appears that Euromos controlled a considerable area. By the end of
the 2d c. we find Euromos in a sympolity with Mylasa which, however, was not of
long duration; quarrels arose and the Euromans found it necessary to turn to the
Romans and Rhodians. About this time an inscription records an alliance with Iasos.
After this the city is barely mentioned; Strabo calls it a peripolion of Mylasa,
and Pliny lists it in the form Eurome. A coin of the late 5th c. B.C. inscribed
URO, with the head of Zeus, seems clearly to belong to Euromos; otherwise the
coinage begins in the 2d c. B.C. after the liberation from Rhodes, and continues
to the 1st c. A.D.
The city stood on flat ground, encircled by a wall which also enclosed
the lower slopes of the hills to the E. The wall is of good ashlar masonry, apparently
of Classical date, with towers at intervals; it is best preserved on the hillside.
On the same hillside was a good-sized theater facing W, but only a few rows of
seats and some fragments of the stage building survive. On the level ground is
the agora, surrounded by a stoa with one or two columns still standing. But the
most striking monument is the temple, just outside the city wall on the S and
visible from the present road--one of the best preserved temples in Asia Minor.
It had a peristyle of 11 by 6 columns in the Corinthian order, 16 of which are
standing complete with architrave; all but four are fluted, and 12 of them carry
a panel with an inscription recording their presentation by individual citizens.
Recent excavations have brought to light an altar in the usual position on the
E, and a decree of Hellenistic date revealing that the temple was dedicated to
Zeus Lepsynos (known at Miletos) and was not the first temple erected to him here;
in its present form it dates from the 2d c. A.D. Close to the temple on the SW
is a group of underground tomb chambers solidly built and roofed with large blocks
in the Carian manner.
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 22 image(s), bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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