PHILADELPHIA
(Alaşehir) Turkey.
City of
Lydia founded by Attalos II of Pergamon (159-138 B.C.)
in the Cogamus (Koca Çay) valley on the road between
Sardis and Laodicea. The city was spread out (
Strab.
12.8.18, 13.4.10) on a slight plateau at the S edge of
the river plain. Some of the city wall is preserved, and
near the acropolis the location of the theater can be
recognized, and perhaps a gymnasium and stadium. In
the 19th c. the remains of a temple were visible outside
the city on the Sardis road. Some finds are in the Manisa
museum.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
H. Curtius,
AbhBerl (1872) 93-95
P;
J. Keil & A. von Premerstein,
Bericht über eine Reise
in Lydien . . . 1906, DenkSchrWien 53, 2 (1908) 24-43
MI; id.,
Bericht über eine Dritte Reise in Lydien 1911,
ibid. 57, 1 (1914) 15-48; J. Inan & E. Rosenbaum,
Roman and Early Byzantine Portrait Sculpture in Asia
Minor (1966) nos. 210, 214, 216
I.
T. S. MACKAY