SALIHADASI
(“Karyanda”) Turkey.
An island
between Myndos and Bargylia in Caria with a sheltered
anchorage. At its E end on a hill above a deserted village
are considerable remains of a town or city now buried
in almost impenetrable scrub. A wall some 160 m long
and 1 m thick runs N-S; it is built of dry rubble, with
two facings and a filling of small stones. Numerous other
walls, from fortifications and houses, are to be seen, but
under present conditions it is hardly possible to determine
the full extent of the site. Tiles and sherds seem to be
of the 4th c. B.C. So far as the material evidence goes,
this appears to be by far the most likely site for the
island of Karyanda. The location (Pseudo-Skylax, Strab.
658, Mela 1.85, Plin.
HN 5.107) has long been sought,
and Pliny (
HN 5.134) and Strabo make it clear that two
sites, one mainland and one island, are required. Strabo
speaks of “Myndos . . . and after this Bargylia, also a
city, and in between these a lake Karyanda and an island
of the same name where the Karyandans used to dwell.”
Apparently the Karyandans, early in the 3d c., crossed
to the mainland and settled on the shore around Göl, the
only lake in this area, where there was later a flourishing
Byzantine township; they thus became citizens of Myndos
(whose territory had been depopulated by Mausolos'
transference of the Lelegians to Halikarnassos), in effect
replacing the now deserted Lelegian site on the hill above
(cf. Madnasa). Their settlement, naturally unfortified,
has left no traces, having been completely covered by
the Byzantine occupation.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
W. R. Paton,
BCH 12 (1888) 282
(Pserimos, name); id. & J. Myres,
JHS 14 (1894) 37Sf;
Head,
Hist. Num. 612; A. Maiuri,
Nuova Silloge . . .
(1925) (inscriptions);
ATL I (1939) 498; G. E. Bean &
J. M. Cook,
BSA 50 (1955) 155-60 (full discussion).
G. E. BEAN
