Isinda (Lycia)
{{short description|Ancient Lycian town}}
{{Other places|Isinda (disambiguation){{!}}Isinda}}
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Isinda ({{langx|tr|İsinda}}, {{langx|grc|Ἴσινδα}}) was a town of ancient Lycia. Isinda was part of a sympoliteia (a treaty for political organization used in Ancient Greece) with Aperlae, Apollonia and Simena.
The city's ruins are located on a hill above the modern Turkish village of Belenli. At the site, the remains of a city wall and other buildings are preserved, as well as some Lycian pillars and rock tombs.
History
The ancient Lycian city of Isinda was inhabited before the first half of the 4th century BC.{{sfn|T.C. Antalya Valiliği|2010|p=199}} From inscriptions it is known that Isinda was a minor member of a sympoliteia (a type of treaty for political organization) that was dominated by the city of Aperlae, but which also included Apollonia and Simena.{{sfn|Bean|2017|p=417}}{{sfn|Robert|1983|p=500}} Isinda is not mentioned by early historians.{{sfn|Bayburtluoğlu|2004|p=239}}
The citizens of Isinda migrated to the nearby city of Antiphellos during the Pax-Romana, and the settlement became abandoned.{{sfn|T.C. Antalya Valiliği|2010|p=199}}
Description
Isinda is an archaeological site in Lycia, located {{convert|6|km}} from the modern Turkish town of Kaş,{{sfn|Bean|2017|p=417}} and situated on a hilltop {{convert|90|m}} above the modern village of Belenli.{{sfn|Talbert|2000|loc=p. 65 and directory notes accompanying}}{{cite web |title=About: Isinda, Belenli, Antalya |url=http://imperium.ahlfeldt.se/places/21548.html |website=Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire |publisher=Lund University |access-date=12 May 2023}}
The ruined defensive wall is made of poor quality rectangular limestone blocks, and show signs of continual repair.{{sfn|Akşit|2006|p=104}}{{sfn|T.C. Antalya Valiliği|2010|p=199}} Within the walls at Isinda are wells and cisterns for collecting rain water. The most important remaining feature of the site is a house-tomb with an inscription wriiten in the ancient Lycian on the pediment.{{sfn|T.C. Antalya Valiliği|2010|p=199}}
At the top of the hill are buildings, including steps that lead to a stoa (covered walkway) and projecting wingsleading off the main building.{{sfn|Bean|2017|p=417}}
The tombs include three rock tombs with inscriptions written in Lycian and a pillar tomb carved with reliefs.{{sfn|Bean|2017|p=417}} On the slope towards the village are inscribed Gothic sarcophagi.{{sfn|Akşit|2006|p=104}}
References
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Sources
- {{cite book |last1=Akşit|first1=İlhan |editor1-last=Kline |editor1-first=Stuart |title=Lycia: The Land of Light |date=2006 |publisher=Aksit Kultur Turizm Sanat Ajans Lt |location=Istanbul |isbn=975-7039-11-X}}
- {{cite book |last1=Bayburtluoğlu |first1=Cevdet |title=Lycia |date=2004 |publisher=Suna & İnan Kıraç Research Institute on Mediterranean Civilizations |location=Antalya |isbn=978-97570-7-820-3 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Bean |first1=George Ewart |author-link=George Ewart Bean |editor1-last=Stillwell |editor1-first=Richard |editor2-last=Macdonald |editor2-first=William L. |title=The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites |date=2017 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, New Jersey |isbn=978-14008-8-658-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NpArDgAAQBAJ |chapter=Isinda (Belenli) Turkey}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Robert |first1=Louis |title=Documents d'Asie Mineure |journal=Bulletin de correspondance hellénique |date=1983 |volume=107 |issue=107–1 |pages=497–599 |doi=10.3406/bch.1983.1898 |url=http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/bch_0007-4217_1983_num_107_1_1898?_Prescripts_Search_tabs1=standard& |language=fr}}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Talbert |editor1-first=Richard J.A. |title=Barrington Atlas Map-by-Map Directory |date=2000 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, New Jersey |isbn=978-06910-4-945-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x_FHmc_E2uQC}}
- {{cite book |last= T.C. Antalya Valiliği |title=Dünden Bugüne Antalya |publisher=T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı |location=|volume=2 |page=|trans-title= Antalya From Past to Present |url=https://antalya.ktb.gov.tr/TR-175492/dunden-bugune-antalya.html |language=tr|year=2010 }}
Further reading
- {{cite book |last1=French |first1=David H. |editor1-last=French |editor1-first=D.H. |title=Studies in the History and Topography of Lycia and Pisidia |date=1994 |publisher=British Institute |location=Oxford |isbn=978-19120-9-067-9 |pages=53{{ndash}}92 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vklHDwAAQBAJ |ref=none |chapter=Isinda and Lagbe}}
External links
- [https://www.loc.gov/resource/g7430m.gct00325/?sp=25&r=0.433,0.496,0.128,0.053,0 Adalia] (1914 map by Richard Kiepert, DII, 2nd edition) from the Library of Congress website, which shows the approximate location of Isinda
- [https://www.komoot.com/plan/tour/d01Aii85wHFLdk=FthsEBoUj8inQWBkbxAA/@36.1965612,29.6969447,14.000z Information about walking to the site] from Komoot
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Category:Populated places in ancient Lycia
Category:Former populated places in Turkey
Category:Archaeological sites in Antalya Province