ELMALI
(“Kyllandos”) Turkey.
Site in Caria,
not conclusively established. Kyllandos figures in the
Athenian tribute lists, down to 446 B.C., as paying the
remarkably high tribute of two talents. It is mentioned
by Stephanos from Hekataios, but despite its apparent
prosperity is otherwise unrecorded, apart from a Rhodian
inscription of about 200 B.C. which refers to the recovery
by Rhodes of the Kyllandia. Various locations have been
proposed, most recently a site at Elmali 11 km E of the
head of the gulf of Kos. Here, on a hill some 150 m high,
is a citadel with tower and an outer wall circuit, house
foundations, and sherds of Classical date. Just E of
Elmali village is a pair of architectural rock tombs similar
to those at Idyma. Roman remains appear to be lacking,
and it is likely that the site was abandoned quite early
and the city refounded, under the name of Kallipolis, on
the commanding site above Kizilyaka a little to the S.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
G. E. Bean & J. M. Cook,
BSA 52
(1957) 75, 84-85.
G. E. BEAN