PEPU´ZA
PEPU´ZA (
Πέπουζα), a town in the western part of Phrygia, which is mentioned only by late writers.
It gave its name to an obscure body of heretics noticed by Epiphanius (
Haeres. 48.14): but they did not exist long, since their town was ruined and deserted when he wrote. (Comp. Philostorg.
[p. 2.575]Hist. Eccl. 4.8, where it is called Petusa; Aristaen.
Comm. in Can. 8, where its name is Pezusa.) Kiepert (ap. Franz,
Fünf Inschriftern, p. 33) believes that its site may possibly be marked by the ruins found by Arundell (
Discoveries in As. Min. i. pp. 101, 127) near
Besh-Shehr and
Kalinkefi, in the south of
Ushak. [
L.S]