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SELEUCEIA SIDERA later CLAUDIOSELEUCEIA (Selef) Turkey.

Town in Pisidia 15 km N of Isparta. Founded by Seleukos I or Antiochos I as a colony to protect the military road across N Pisidia. In the 1st c. A.D. the name was officially changed to Claudioseleuceia; this name is retained on the coins down to the time of Claudius II, though in Ptolemy, Hierokles, and the Notitiae the prefix is dropped.

The site is now much denuded. The city wall is best preserved at the SE angle, where it is formed of huge squared blocks. Some traces of a theater remain, and sherds of Roman date are abundant. The necropolis covers the NW slope of the hill; it includes underground rock-cut chambers with rectangular doors, tombs of Carian type with rock-cut grave and covering slab, and a single built tomb still standing.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

G. Hirschfeld, MonatsbBerl (1879) 312-14; H. Rott, Kleinasiatische Denkmäler (1908) 351, 354; L. Robert, Hellenica X (1955) 239, 243-44.

G. E. BEAN

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