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- 36.4248°N · 29.8592°E
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A Lycian city 26 km northwest of Myra, on a rocky hill closed in by deep valleys on three sides; the ruins lie near the Ernez quarter of Finike in Antalya. Very little of its history is known, but the stones talk: inscribed blocks reused in its walls report a bath later turned into a guest house, and the building was dedicated to Trajan. That inscription attests a parokhion, an official guest house, otherwise unknown in any city of Lycia. Inscriptions also show that the city remained attached to Myra until the end of the Byzantine period.
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Did you know
- For this work a noblewoman of Arneai, Lalla, gave 3,000 denarii and was honoured for it; wife of Dioteimos, she was a priestess of the imperial cult.
- Another inscription is dedicated to a local god, Tobaloas.
- The city received help from Opramoas after the Lycian earthquake of 141, and after the earthquake of 5 August 240 it was one of the few cities Gordian III allowed to strike coins.
- On the southern slope stands a three-aisled Early Byzantine church with an apse 3.65 metres across and a mosaic-paved narthex.
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