IDYMA
(Kozlukuyu) Turkey.
City in Caria
18 km S of Muğla. It first appears as a member of the
Delian Confederacy, until ca. 440 B.C. At this time it
was ruled by a dynast Paktyes, and then or a little later
struck silver drachmas with the head of Pan and a fig
leaf. At some time before 200 B.C. the city became subject to Rhodes; later it separated again, but was recovered by the Rhodian general Nikagoras (
SIG 586).
The acropolis is on a spur of the mountain ca. 300 m
above the village, and may be reached from the main
road which passes above it. The fortification wall, of
variable quality, encloses an oval space some 200 m long;
there are remains of a small fort on the central part of
the crest, but little else in the interior. On the S side are
traces of an outer circuit enclosing a much larger area,
which was evidently the inhabited part of the site. Lower
down is a group of rock tombs including a fine architectural tomb in Ionic style, and at the foot of the mountain, beside the present road W of Kozlukuyu, is another
group of five, of which two are Ionic temple tombs; the
others are simpler. These architectural tombs probably
date from the dynastic period around 400 B.C.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
G. Cousin & C. Diehl,
BCH 10 (1886)
428-30; G. Guidi,
Annuario 4-5 (1921-22) 370ff; L. Robert,
Études Anatoliennes (1937) 472-90; G. E. Bean &
J. M. Cook,
BSA 52 (1957) 68-72.
G. E. BEAN
