photo sharing and upload picture albums photo forums search pictures popular photos photography help login
Dick Osseman | profile | all galleries >> Galleries >> Kibyra tree view | thumbnails | slideshow | map

Kibyra

Bütün Türkiye resimleri için buraya basınız veya Başka antik yerleri için buraya basınız
This gallery is in the SW Aegean and W Med topic
My page with very many Turkish cities OR Other antique cities


From the Wikipedia I quote: “Kibyra or Cibyra (Greek: Κιβύρα), also referred to as Cibyra Magna, is an ancient city and an archaeological site in south-west Turkey, near the modern town of Gölhisar, in Burdur Province. It was the chief city of a district Cibyratis. Strabo says, that the Cibyratae are called descendants of the Lydians, of those who once occupied the Cabalis, but afterwards of the neighbouring Pisidians, who settled here, and removed the town to another position in a strong place, which was about 100 stadia in circuit. It grew powerful under a good constitution, and the villages extended from Pisidia and the adjoining Milyas into Lycia, and to the Peraea of the Rhodians. When the three neighbouring towns of Bubon, Balubura, and Oenoanda were joined to it, this confederation was called Tetrapolis. Each town had one vote, but Cibyra had two votes; for Cibyra alone could muster 30,000 infantry and 2000 cavalry. It was always under tyrants, but the government was moderate. The tetrapolis formed under the leadership of Kibyra during the 2nd century BC, was dissolved by the Roman general Lucius Licinius Murena in 83 BC, at the time of the First Mithridatic War. Balbura and Bubon were assigned to the Lycians. The conventus of Cibyra, however, still remained one of the greatest in Asia. The Cibyratae had four languages, the Pisidian, the Hellenic, the language of the Solymi and of the Lydians. It is also the place where, according to Strabo, the Lydian language was still being spoken among a multicultural population around his time (1st century BC), thus making Kibyra the last locality where the culture, by then extinct in Lydia proper according to extant accounts, is attested. It was a peculiarity of Cibyra that the iron was easily cut with a chisel, or other sharp tool. Strabo does not fix the position of Cibyra precisely. After mentioning Antiochia on the Maeander as being in Caria, he says, to the south the great Cibyra, Sinda, and the Cabalis, as far as Taurus and Lycia. Ptolemy places Cibyra in Great Phrygia, and assigns the three cities of Bubon, Balbura, and Oenoanda to the Cabalis of Lycia, which is consistent with Strabo. The place is identified by inscriptions on the spot. The ruins cover the brow of a hill between 300 and 400 feet above the level of the plain. The material for the buildings was gotten from the limestone in the neighbourhood; and many of them are in good condition. On a block there is an inscription, Καισαρεων Κιβυρατων ἡ βουλη και ὁ δημος, from which it appears that in the Roman period the city had also the name Caesarea. The name Καισαρεων appears on some of the coins of Cibyra. There are no traces of city walls.

Most objects can be idientified from the name of the pictures. The findings that were taken away are to a great extent in the Burdur Museum
Kibyra agora and columned street
Kibyra agora and columned street
Kibyra stadium
Kibyra stadium
Kibyra Odeon
Kibyra Odeon
East Roman bath
East Roman bath
Kibyra Roman Beth
Kibyra Roman Beth
Kibyra theatre
Kibyra theatre
Kibyra Martirium October 2016 9775.jpg
Kibyra Martirium October 2016 9775.jpg
Kibyra Martirium October 2016 9776.jpg
Kibyra Martirium October 2016 9776.jpg
Kibyra Temple October 2016 9960.jpg
Kibyra Temple October 2016 9960.jpg
Kibyra Temple October 2016 9961.jpg
Kibyra Temple October 2016 9961.jpg
Kibyra Temple October 2016 9963.jpg
Kibyra Temple October 2016 9963.jpg
Kibyra Aedicula funerary monument October 2016 9763.jpg
Kibyra Aedicula funerary monument October 2016 9763.jpg
Kibyra Basilica October 2016 9926.jpg
Kibyra Basilica October 2016 9926.jpg
Kibyra Basilica October 2016 9941.jpg
Kibyra Basilica October 2016 9941.jpg
Kibyra View October 2016 9816.jpg
Kibyra View October 2016 9816.jpg
Kibyra View October 2016 9817.jpg
Kibyra View October 2016 9817.jpg
Kibyra View October 2016 9853.jpg
Kibyra View October 2016 9853.jpg
Kibyra View towards stadium October 2016 9764.jpg
Kibyra View towards stadium October 2016 9764.jpg
Kibyra View towards stadium October 2016 9765.jpg
Kibyra View towards stadium October 2016 9765.jpg
Kibyra View towards stadium October 2016 9766 panorama.jpg
Kibyra View towards stadium October 2016 9766 panorama.jpg
Kibyra View towards stadium October 2016 9766.jpg
Kibyra View towards stadium October 2016 9766.jpg
Kibyra View towards stadium October 2016 9767.jpg
Kibyra View towards stadium October 2016 9767.jpg
Kibyra View towards stadium October 2016 9768.jpg
Kibyra View towards stadium October 2016 9768.jpg
Kibyra View towards stadium October 2016 9769.jpg
Kibyra View towards stadium October 2016 9769.jpg