TAŞYAKA
(“Krya”) Turkey.
Krya was a town
in Lycia or Caria, probably at Taşyaka, formerly Charopia, on the shore of a small bay 8 km N of the headland
of Kapi Daği, on the W side of the gulf of Fethiye.
Krya figures in the Athenian tribute lists with a tribute
of one-third of a talent, and is mentioned by Pliny, Mela,
Artemidorus ap. Steph. Byz., and in the
Stadiasmus. Its
general situation on the gulf of Fethiye appears clearly
from the authorities, and no more probable site is known
than that at Taşyaka, though no actual proof is available.
The site is very small, comprising a tiny acropolis on a
steep hill with remains of an early wall and a tower,
approached by a rock-cut stairway. On the shore is an
Ionic temple tomb with an inscription in Carian. Krya
is said to have possessed islands in the gulf, and is called
by Pliny Crya fugitivorum, though the reason for this is
not known. It is in any case to be clearly distinguished
from the Rhodian deme of Kryassos.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TAM I (1901) 151; A. Maiuri,
Annuario 4-5 (1921-22) 422-24;
ATL I (1939) 507; P. M.
Fraser & G. E. Bean,
The Rhodian Peraea (1954) 55-56.
G. E. BEAN
