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OLBASA (Belenli) Turkey.

Site in Pisidia. 54 km S-SW of Burdur. The form of the name implies an early date for the foundation, but the city does not appear in history before the settlement of a military colony by Augustus ca. 6 B.C. (Colonia Julia Augusta Olbasenorum). The coins are colonial of the 2d and 3d c.

The site is on a hill precipitous on the N, dominating the valley of the Lysis, with a stream on either flank. The summit of the hill carries a circuit wall which has been thought to be Hellenistic, and on the S slope are numerous foundations and statue bases, though nothing is standing. Many ancient stones may be seen in Belenli village.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

L'Abbé Duchesne & M. Collignon, BCH 1 (1877) 370; B. Levick, Roman Colonies in Southern Asia Minor (1967) 48-50.

G. E. BEAN

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