Madnasa

Coordinates: 37°7′43″N 27°23′21″E / 37.12861°N 27.38917°E / 37.12861; 27.38917
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Madnasa
Archaic Period

Madnasa (

Myndos. In 5th century BCE the city was included in the Delian League and Athenian tribute lists.[2]

Literature

Stephanos Byzantios in the geographical lexicon Ethnika from Hekataios's fragmenta, where it seems that the city had the archaic name Kurbasa.[3]

The earliest reference to the city comes from the description of three Carian sites by W.R., Paton, J.L. Myres, & E.L. Hicks at 1894.[4] Later, Bean identified the city with the visible ruins on the hill above Türkbükü Bay and lower Göl.[5]

The archaeological site

The site at Göl is referred 300 by 90 m, with a

BCE.[6]

References

  1. ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 5.29.
  2. ^ Meritt, Benjamin D.; McGregor, Malcolm Francis; Wade-Gery, H. T. The Athenian Tribute Lists. Vol. 3. New Jersey, Princeton: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens. p. 54.
  3. ^ Davis, Gil (2011). "Axones and Kurbeis: a new answer to an old problem". Historia (60): 13. [...]The polis name Kurbasa clearly has the same root kurb- and dated to the archaic period as it was recorded by Hekataios, Asia (per Herodian Prosody s.v. Medmasa, c.180-250 CE) and Stephanos, Ethnika s.v. Kurbasa, c.sixth century CE.[...]
  4. ^ Paton, W.R.; Myres, J.L.; E.L. Hicks (1894). "Three Carian sites". Journal of Hellenic Studies (14): 373–380.
  5. ^ Bean, G.E.; Cook, J.M. (1955). "The Halicarnassus Peninsula". ABSA (50): 151–155.
  6. ^ Stillwell, Richard; et al., eds. (1976). "MADNASA Turkey". The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Medmasa". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.


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