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City in Cilicia Aspera, 9 km NW of Gazipasa. Founded by Antiochos
IV of Kommagene, but otherwise unknown to history. It is listed by Ptolemy, Hierokles,
and the Notitiae, and perhaps by Pliny (HN 5.92). The name Aidap is applied solely
to the site and evidently preserves the ancient name. The ruins are on a small
promontory defended by a circuit wall and on the shore of a small bay below it
to the E; the present highway passes through the site.
Conspicuous is a double row of large honorific statue bases facing
each other across an ancient street. Numerous buildings, for the most part of
poor quality, surviving in various states of collapse, include a structure with
a number of vaulted rooms. A small stream, dry in summer, enters the bay. Above
this on the E, beside the modern road, are the foundations of a modest temple
dedicated by an inscription to Trajan. On the higher ground to the E is an extensive
necropolis; most of the tombs are of squared blocks originally covered with stucco.
They usually have a main chamber and antechamber and are in some cases enclosed
in a peribolos.
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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