PYRNOS
Caria, Turkey.
A town of the Rhodian Peraea. It is named by Pliny (
HN 5.104) between
Kaunos and Loryma,and by Stephanos Byzantios.
Earlier it was a member of the Delian Confederacy, with
a tribute of one-sixth of a talent. It has been proposed to
place it in the bay of Büyükkaraağaç, between Kaunos
and Physkos; there are remains of walls and tombs on
the W side of the bay.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
P. Roos in
Opuscula Atheniensia 9
(1969) 60;
ATL I 544.
G. E. BEAN