APOLLONIA
(Kilinçli, formerly Siçak) Turkey.
City in Lycia 12 km E of Kaş, not mentioned by the
ancient writers (except that Stephanos Byzantios records
an island off the coast of Lycia under Apollonia) and
known chiefly from its inscriptions. There is said to be
a coin of Lycian League type inscribed
ΑΠΟ; if this is
correct it must be ascribed to Apollonia, which cannot
then have been merely a subordinate member at that
time, as it was later, of a sympolity under Aperlae.
The ruins are on a hill some 90 m above the village,
with a small walled area at the highest point. Otherwise,
apart from a poorly preserved theater, a large vaulted
reservoir, and a number of cisterns of the familiar bell
shape, there remain only tombs. Among them are four
or five Lycian pillar tombs, none inscribed, proving the
antiquity of the site, and one Lycian rock tomb with a
Greek inscription.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
R. Heberdey & E. Kalinka,
Bericht über
zwei Reisen (1896) 17-18.
G. E. BEAN
