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KASAI (Ancient city) TURKEY
City in Cilicia Aspera or Pamphylia, near Gundogmus, 30 km N of Alanya.
The ethnic of Kasai seems to occur in an inscription of Alexandria in the 3d c.
B.C., and the city is listed by Ptolemy, Hierokles, and the Notitiae. Georgios
Kyprios records a klima of Kasai (Not. Dig. 1.854), and the city appears to have
been among the most important of the region. Its coinage is of the 3d c. A.D.
The site is on a steep hill, the end of a ridge of the Taurus, with
deep gorges on either side. It is approached by a saddle on the N. The remains
are ruined and hardly impressive; no public building can be identified apart from
a large church, parts of the walls of which, including two arched doorways, are
still standing. On the outer face of the church, at the SE corner, covering the
apse and the adjoining wall, is a long inscription; it apparently dates from the
late 5th c. and comprises a letter from the Emperor, a prostagma of the magister
officiorum, and an edict of the provincial governor, all concerning a point of
law. It shows that Kasai was in full vigor at that time, and had city status.
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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