Lyrbe
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Location | Antalya Province, Turkey |
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Region | Pamphylia |
Coordinates | 36°52′29″N 31°28′24″E / 36.87477°N 31.47344°E |
Type | Settlement |
Site notes | |
Condition | In ruins |
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Lyrbe (spelled Lyrba in the 1910 Catholic Encyclopedia; Ancient Greek: Λύρβη) was an ancient city and later episcopal see in the Roman province of Pamphylia Prima and is now a titular see.[1]
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Its site is identified with that about 1 km north of modern Bucakşeyhler,[2][3]
History
[edit]Its name is only known by its coins and the mention made of it by Dionysius Periegetes,[4] Ptolemy,[5] and Hierocles.[6][7] Dionysius places the town in Pisidia, while William Smith equates Lyrbe with the Lyrope (Λυρόπη), mentioned by Ptolemy and placed by the ancient geographer in Cilicia Trachaea.[8]
The Notitiae episcopatuum mention Lyrba as an episcopal see, suffragan of the archbishopric of Side, up to the 12th and 13th centuries. Two of its bishops are known: Caius, who attend the First Council of Constantinople in 381, and Taurianus at the First Council of Ephesus in 431 (Le Quien, Oriens christianus, I, 1009); Zeuxius was not Bishop of Lyrba, as Le Quien states, but of Syedra.[7]
The Site
[edit]There are extensive remains of an agora containing a row of two-storey and three-storey building façades, a gate, a mausoleum, a Roman bath, a necropolis, in addition to several temples and churches.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 918
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ^ J. Nollé, "Forschungen in Selge und Ostpamphylien", Araştırma 6 (1988), pp. 257–59.
- ^ Dionysius Periegetes 858,
- ^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 5.5.5.
- ^ Hierocles. Synecdemus. Vol. p. 682.
- ^ a b Sophrone Pétridès, "Lyrba" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1910)
- ^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 5.5.9.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Lyrbe". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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