ANTIPHELLUS
ANTIPHELLUS (
Ἀντίφελλος: Eth.
Ἀντιφελλίτης and Eth.
Ἀντιφελλείτης:
Antephelo or
Andoiflo), a town of Lycia, on the south coast, at the head of a bay.
An inscription copied by Fellows at this place, contains the ethnic name
ΑΝΤΙΦΕΛΛΕΙΤΟΥ (
Discoveries in Lycia, p. 186).
The little theatre of Antiphellus is complete, with the exception of the proscenium. Fellows gives a page of drawings of specimens of ends of sarcophagi, pediments, and doors of tombs. Strabo (p. 666) incorrectly places Antiphellus among the inland towns. Beaufort (
Karamania, p. 13) gives the name of
Vathy to the bay at the head of which Antiphellus stands, and he was the discoverer of this ancient site.
There is a ground-plan of Antiphelius in Spratt's
Lycia. There are coins of Antiphellus of the imperial period, with the epigraph
Ἀντιφελλειτων. Nothing is known of the history of this place.
PHELLUS (
Φέλλος) is mentioned by Strabo with Antiphellus. Fellows places the site of Phellus near a village called
Saaret, WNW. of Antiphellus, and separated from it by mountains.
He found on a summit the remains of a town, and inscriptions in Greek characters, but too much defaced to be legible. Spratt (
Lycia, vol. i. p. 66) places the Pyrrha of Pliny (
5.27) at
Saaret, and this position agrees better with Pliny's words: “Antiphellos quae quondam Habessus; atque in recessu Phellus; deinde Pyrrha itemque Xanthus,” &c.
It is more
[p. 1.148]consistent with this passage to look for Phellus north of Antiphellus, than in any other direction; and the ruins at
Tchookoorbye, north of Antiphellus, on the spur of a mountain called
Fellerdagh, seem to be those of Phellus.
These ruins, which are not those of a large town, are described in Spratt's
Lycia. [
G.L]
