BURGAZ
(“Uranion”) Turkey.
Town in Caria.
Near Geriş, 5 km NE of Myndos, a site of Lelegian
type, with a citadel some 50 m long enclosing a tower
of squared masonry; outside this on the N is a second
tower and some stretches of polygonal wall evidently
belonging to an outer circuit. The pottery is of archaic
and Classical date. On a peak to the N is a handsome
chamber tumulus. Uranion is mentioned in the Athenian
tribute lists with a very small tribute, and by Diodoros
(5.23), who records that after the Trojan War Carians
fled from Syme to the mainland and occupied the place
called Uranion. According to Pliny (
HN 5.107) it was
one of the six Lelegian towns incorporated by Alexander
the Great (really by Maussolos) in Halikarnassos. The
location at Burgaz is conjectural.
BIBLIOGRAPHY. W. R. Paton & J. Myres,
JHS 8 (1888)
78f; 16 (1896) 206f; G. E. Bean & J. M. Cook,
BSA 50
(1955) 118-20, 155.
G. E. BEAN
