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TYBERISSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Site in Lycia 3 km S of Kyaneai, 15 km W of Myra. The city is known
only from its inscriptions and has no history. The name was at first read erroneously
as Tybenissos; the true name is preserved in that of the village. The antiquity
of the site is proved by two Lycian rock tombs with inscriptions in the epichoric
script. Some rare coins of Lycian type inscribed TU are probably to be ascribed
to Tyberissos; otherwise there is no coinage. The inscriptions indicate that the
principal deity was Apollo Tyberisseus, with the epithet Patroos, and that Tybenissos
was united in a deme with Teimiusa.
The hill, high and steep, has a summit in two parts. The higher N
part formed the acropolis, and has remains of a fortification wall in solid ashlar,
and some small buildings; on the lower S part is a church built largely from the
stones of a Doric temple. Among the ruins are many sarcophagi with so-called Gothic
lids of the familiar Lycian type. At the foot of the mountain, immediately above
the E end of the plain of Tirmisin, is a glade containing a dozen more Gothic
sarcophagi and a number of pigeon-hole tombs; at the lower end is an unusual tomb
with the door and two sides cut from the rock, and the two other sides of masonry.
In several cases the epitaphs make the fine for violation payable to Myra.
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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