IOTAPE
(Aidap) Turkey.
City in Cilicia Aspera, 9 km NW of Gazipaşa. Founded by Antiochos IV
of Kommagene, but otherwise unknown to history. It is
listed by Ptolemy, Hierokles, and the
Notitiae, and perhaps by Pliny (
HN 5.92). The name Aidap is applied
solely to the site and evidently preserves the ancient
name. The ruins are on a small promontory defended by
a circuit wall and on the shore of a small bay below
it to the E; the present highway passes through the site.
Conspicuous is a double row of large honorific statue
bases facing each other across an ancient street. Numerous buildings, for the most part of poor quality, surviving
in various states of collapse, include a structure with a
number of vaulted rooms. A small stream, dry in summer, enters the bay. Above this on the E, beside the
modern road, are the foundations of a modest temple
dedicated by an inscription to Trajan. On the higher
ground to the E is an extensive necropolis; most of the
tombs are of squared blocks originally covered with
stucco. They usually have a main chamber and antechamber and are in some cases enclosed in a peribolos.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
R. Heberdey & A. Wilhelm,
Reisen in
Kilikien (1896) 147-48; R. Paribeni & P. Romanelli,
MonAnt 23 (1914) 174f; J. Keil & A. Wilhelm,
JOAI
18 (1915)
Beibl. 111; G. E. Bean & T. B. Mitford,
Journeys in Rough Cilicia in 1962 and 1963 (1965) 24-29;
id.,
Journeys in Rough Cilicia 1964-1968 (1970) 149-52.
G. E. BEAN
