PITYOUSSA
Rough Cilicia, Turkey.
Probably
Kargincik or Dana, the rocky island (3 x 1.5 km) ca.
3 km offshore and ca. 14 km SE of Incekum Burun
(ancient Sarpedon) (Stadiasmus Mans Magni 187; Acrae
St. Barnabae:
Actae SS. Jun. II, 432). It was probably the
Pitusu island taken by Neriglissar in 557-556 B.C. in the
course of his campaign against the king of Pirindu
(Rough Cilicia). There are a number of ruins of houses,
gravehouses, and sarcophagi along the NW (inshore) side
of the island, nowhere fully described.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
F. Beaufort,
Karamania (1818) 206 [for
Beaufort's chart and general map of the ruins see, e.g.,
U.S. Naval Chart no. 4254 (1954),
Mediterranean Sea,
Plans on the South Coast of Turkey, D]; R. Heberdey &
A. Wilhelm,
Reisen in Kilikien 1891-1892,
DenkschrWien, Phil-Hist. Kl. 44, 6 (1896) 98; J. Keil,
RE
(2d ed. 1950) s.v. p. 3; J. Wiseman,
Chronicles of the
Chaldaean Kings (1961) 40, 75, 88.
T. S. MAC KAY
