Lyrba
A general view of Lyrbe
Lyrbe is located in Turkey
Lyrbe
Shown within Turkey
LocationAntalya Province, Turkey
RegionPamphylia
Coordinates36°52′29″N 31°28′24″E / 36.87477°N 31.47344°E / 36.87477; 31.47344
TypeSettlement
Site notes
ConditionIn ruins
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The Agora of Lyrbe

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]

A structure to the east of the agora
Lyrbe Naras Bridge

Its site is identified with that about 1 km north of modern Bucakşeyhler,[2][3]

History

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

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

References

  1. ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 918
  2. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  3. ^ J. Nollé, "Forschungen in Selge und Ostpamphylien", Araştırma 6 (1988), pp. 257–59.
  4. ^ Dionysius Periegetes 858,
  5. ^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 5.5.5.
  6. ^ Hierocles. Synecdemus. Vol. p. 682.
  7. ^ a b Sophrone Pétridès, "Lyrba" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1910)
  8. ^ 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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