PITANE
(Candarli) Turkey.
Aiolian city on
a small peninsula NE of Phokaia, near the mouth of the
Kaikos (
Hdt. 1.149;
Strab. 13.614; Ov., Met. 7.357). It
was not important in history, but it is the only Aiolian
site in Anatolia to produce valuable archaeological material. Excavations in the 19th c. at the necropolis on the
isthmus of the peninsula yielded a Mycenaean stirrup
vase and Greek archaic pottery now in the Istanbul
Museum, and the town itself has produced much terra sigillata.
Recent excavations in the archaic necropolis yielded
mainly vases of ca. 625-500 B.C., but also some Geometric and Protogeometric pottery, fine specimens of
Chian pottery, and a large number of orientalizing vases
from the first half of the 6th c. (Istanbul Museum and
Izmir Museum). An archaic statue discovered accidentally is now in the museum at Bergama.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
S. Reinach,
Chroniques d'Orient (1896)
9f =
RA (1883:1) 363f; G. Perrot & C. Chipiez,
Histoire de l'art (1882-1911) VI, 923f; S. Loeschke,
AM
27 (1912) 344ff (terra sigillata); K. Schuchhardt,
Altertümer von Pergamon I, 1 (1912) 998
M; H. T. Bossert,
Altanatolien (1942) fig. 7 (Mycenaean vase); J. Keil,
RE XX: 2, 18; L. Robert,
Villes anatoliennes 172, 6; E.
Akurgal,
AJA 66 (1962) 378f
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