The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites
Richard Stillwell, William L. MacDonald, Marian Holland McAllister, Stillwell, Richard, MacDonald, William L., McAlister, Marian Holland, Ed.

NISA Lycia, Turkey.

Near Sütlğen, in the mountains ca. 25 km N of Kaş. Mentioned only by Ptolemy and Hierokles and in the episcopal Notitiae. There is no evidence that Nisa was ever a member of the Lycian League; her one known coin (Sammlung von Aulock no. 4373), of the 2d c. B.C., is of nonfederal type.

The ruins are quite considerable but poorly preserved. They include a theater and a stadium; above the latter is a paved agora with a stoa and a number of inscribed bases. The city wall is partly preserved, in good squared blocks. The necropolis, outside the wall on the W, contains sarcophagi and a few built tombs.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

R. Heberdey in Festschrift für H. Kiepert (1898) 153-58; TAM II.3 (1940) 271.

G. E. BEAN