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Phellus (Phellos) is mentioned by Strabo with Antiphellus. Fellows
places the site of Phellus near a village called Saaret, WNW. of Antiphellus,
and separated from it by mountains. He found on a summit the remains of a town,
and inscriptions in Greek characters, but too much defaced to be legible. Spratt
(Lycia, vol. i. p. 66) places the Pyrrha of Pliny (v. 27) at Saaret, and this
position agrees better with Pliny's words: Antiphellos quae quondam Habessus;
atque in recessu Phellus; deinde Pyrrha itemque Xanthus, &c. It is more consistent
with this passage to look for Phellus north of Antiphellus, than in any other
direction; and the ruins at Tchookoorbye, north of Antiphellus, on the spur of
a mountain called Fellerdagh, seem to be those of Phellus. These ruins, which
are not those of a large town, are described in Spratt's Lycia.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
(Phellos). A city of Lycia.
On Felendagi above the village of Cukurbag, 5 km N of Kas, at an altitude
of 750 m. The city is mentioned by Hekataios (ap. Steph. Byz. s.v., but erroneously
located in Pamphylia), and in the 4th c. B.C. by pseudo-Skylax. Its Lycian name
was apparently Vehinda, which appears on coins of the dynasts; the later coinage
of Phellos is of federal type and Hellenistic date, and of Gordian III. A bishop
of Phellos is recorded in the Byzantine lists.
The site has been disputed. It has also been identified with a small
city on the coast at Bayindir Limani, across the bay from Kas (Antiphellos). At
Felendagi the only two legible Greek epitaphs are both of citizens of Phellos,
but this again is inconclusive, as we find Phellites buried in half a dozen other
places also. It is clear from the extant monuments that Phellos controlled a wide
area of territory, for which the small site at Bayindir Limani appears inadequate
both in size and in position; Felendagi on the other hand is three times as large
and in a commanding situation.
The ring wall enclosed a long narrow area running EW along the crest
of the hill; on the N side are several stretches of massive polygonal masonry
of archaic appearance; on the S side the wall is mostly destroyed. The extant
monuments consist almost entirely of tombs, inside and outside the wall. One tomb,
of Lycian house type, stands free on all sides, cut solidly out of the living
rock; others are sarcophagi, in some cases handsomely decorated with reliefs.
At the W end is an interesting group, entirely rock-cut, which seems to have formed
a burial complex; on one of the walls is a relief of a bull, over life-size and
damaged. Two Lycian inscriptions have been found on the site. There is an abundant
spring on the E slope of the hill, and two wells have recently been dug inside
the city wall. Felendagi is the only site in central Lycia which has running water.
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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