DASKYLEION
Turkey.
Stephanos Byzantios
records five cities called Daskyleion in W Asia Minor,
one of which, according to Xenophon (
Hell. 4.1.15;
Hell. Oxyrhynchia 17.3), was the residence of Pharanabazus, Persian satrap of the Hellespont and Phrygia. This
has been identified with the city mound called Hisartepe
on the SW shore of Lake Manyas, near Ergili, where
excavations have yielded many Achaemenid bullae in
Graeco-Persian style bearing Aramaic inscriptions. Consequently the lake is to be identified with
Δασκυλίτις Λίμνη: according to Strabo (
12.575) Daskyleion lay on
this lake.
Three Graeco-Persian funerary stelai found in Daskyleion are now in the Istanbul museum.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Site: A. R. Munro,
JHS 32 (1912)
57ff; K. Bittel, “Zur Lage von Daskyleion,”
AA (1953)
2-16; E. Akurgal,
Anatolia 1 (1956) 20-24
I; id.,
Die
Kunst Anatoliens (1961) 170-73
I; F. K. Dörner,
Der
kleine Pauly I (1964) 1395-96.
Inscriptions on bullae: K. Balkan,
Anatolia 4 (1959)
123ff.
Graeco-Persian reliefs: D. Sommer,
CRAI (1966)
44-58; E. Akurgal,
Iranica Antiqua 6 (1966) 147-56.
F. M. Gross, “An Aramaic Inscription from Daskyleion,”
BASOR 184 (1966) 7-10; G.M.A. Hanfmann, “The New
Stelae from Daskyleion,” ibid. 10-13; N. Dolunay,
Ann.
Arch. Mus. Ist. 13-14 (1967) 1ff; J. Borchhardt,
IstMitt
18 (1968); J. P. Bernard,
RA (1969) 17-28; J. Teixidor,
“Bulletin d'épigraphie sémitique,”
Syria 45 (1964) 377; J. M. Dentzer,
RA (1969:2) 195-224; H. Möbius, “Zu
den Stelen von Daskyleion,”
AA (1971) 442-55; id.,
“Zur Datierung der Grabstelen aus Daskyleion,”
Mélanges Mansel (1974) 967-70.
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