Amyzon

Amyzon

:" Amyzon is also a genus of Catostomid fishes".Amyzon in Caria, (now Mazin, Aydin Province, in Aegean Turkey) was an ancient city 30km south of modern Koçarlı. Under the Seleucids, Amyzon was one of the cities in the loose, trade-oriented Chrysaorian League of Carian cities that lasted at least until 203 BCE, when Antiochus III confirmed the privileges of Amyzon. [J. Ma, "Antiochos III and the Cities of Western Asia Minor", :175.] The League had its primary focus on unified defense, and secondarily on trade, with a form of reciprocal citizenship whereby a citizen of a member city was entitled to certain rights and privileges in any other member city. [ [http://www.ancientlibrary.com/gazetteer/0111.html Hazlitt, "The Classical Gazetteer", "s.v." "Chrysaorium"] ]

The city was dismissed by Strabo [Strabo, 658.] as a mere "peripolion" of Alabanda; Amyzon was mentioned by Pliny, Ptolemy and Hierocles. In the wars among the successors of Alexander, in the third century BCE, the city allied with the less immediately threatening power, first with the Ptolemies, then with the Seleucids. In the second city it concluded an alliance with Heracleia under Latmos. On one occasion it sent a delegation to the oracle of Apollo at Clarus. The few coins identified as from the mint at Amyzon are Hellenistic and Imperial Roman.

According to "The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites" [ [http://icarus.umkc.edu/sandbox/perseus/pecs/page.263.a.php "The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites": "s.v." "Amyzon"] .] a stretch of the city wall stands 6 m high; inside it are a few ruined and unidentifiable buildings, also a row of a dozen large vaulted underground chambers, apparently storerooms. There are also Byzantine structures. Outside the city a series of ruined terraces mark the site of the Doric temple of Artemis, [See the Bagadates who was a "neokoros", at the article Bagadates I.] which dates from the time of the Hecatomnids: an architrave block has been found bearing a dedication by Idrieus. Numerous other inscriptions abound.

Amyzon was excavated by Louis Robert. [ Louis Robert, with Jeanne Robert, "Fouilles d'Amyzon en Carie", (Paris: De Boccard) 1983.] Amyzon was mentioned in the Byzantine lists of bishops; it remains a titular see in the Roman Catholic Church.

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