DARDANOS
or Dardanum Turkey.
City in
the Troad, in the coastal plain of the Kalabakli çay. The
site is on a low hill (Mal Tepe, Şehitlik Batarya) which
controls the coast road, as Strabo says (13.1.28), 70
stadia (13-14 km) S of Abydos. It was a member of the
Athenian League, paying one talent; at some point in
the Hellenistic period it was transferred to Abydos
(Strabo) but in 190 B.C. was liberated by Rome (
Livy
37.9; 37; 38.39). Roman Imperial coinage. In the 19th c.
some Greek vases were found here. Recent excavations
have yielded tiles and sherds of the 8th c. B.C. to the
2d c. A.D., but no trace of walls. A Hellenistic tumulus
1 km to the S has also been excavated. The finds are in
the Çanakkale museum.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ArchJ 16 (1859) 3 n. 1;
AthMitt 6
(1881) 219; H. Schliemann,
Ilios (1880) 134; id.,
Troja
(1884) 305; W. Leaf,
Strabo on the Troad (1923)
150ff
MI; R. Duyuran, “Decouverte d'un Tumulus près de l'ancien Dardanus,”
Anatolia 5 (1960) 9-12
I; Z. Taşliklioglou, “Dardanos şehri tümülüsde yeni bulunan
Grekçe kitabeler,”
TurkTarDerg 13 (1963) 17-18; J. M.
Cook,
The Troad (1973) 57-60.
T. S. MACKAY
