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ETENNA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Town in Pamphylia or Pisidia, 22 km N of Manavgat. Polybios (5.73.3)
records that Etenna in 218 B.C. furnished 8000 troops to Garsyenis; he speaks
of it as lying in the Pisidian mountain country above Side. It is not mentioned
again before the Council of Ephesos in A.D. 341. There is, however, a handsome
silver coinage of the 4th c. B.C., and the bronze coins extend from the 1st c.
B.C. to the 3d c. A.D. The site at Sirt is determined by the preponderance of
coins of Etenna found there, and confirmed by sherds of the Classical period--such
sherds being very rare on the inland sites of this region. The previous location
of Etenna at Golcuk, farther E beyond the river Melas, is thus disqualified.
The ruins occupy the slopes of a steep hill some 250 m high, N of
the village. The ring wall, of irregular ashlar of good quality, is standing in
part; the S slope, less steep than the others, is covered with overgrown remains
of buildings for the most part unidentifiable. They include however a church,
a rock-cut reservoir, and a roofed cistern; a spring of good water supplies the
village below. On the N slope are numerous rock-cut tombs, said to number 52 in
all. Two statues of women, about life-size, are lying on the hillside, and some
half-dozen inscriptions of the Roman period have been seen. There is no theater,
and no temple has been recognized.
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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