Ancient site· Salihli, Manisa
Daldis
Daldis is a ancient site in Salihli, Manisa; Daldis was a town on the borders of ancient Lydia and Phrygia that minted its own coins in antiquity.
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- 38.6684°N · 28.0752°E
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Daldis was a town on the borders of ancient Lydia and Phrygia that minted its own coins in antiquity. Its site has been located at the Nardi Kale locality near the villages of Kemer and Kale in the Salihli district of Manisa, where it largely remains buried. It also bore the name Flaviocaesaria.
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Between the villages of Kemer and Kale in Salihli, at a spot called Nardı Kale. It lay in Lydia's Katakekaumene, close to the Phrygian border. Roman coins read Daldianon, it appears in the Flavian conventus list of AD 79, and Batlamyus (Ptolemy) names it in his Geography. The city's best-known connection is a book about dreams: Artemidorus, antiquity's dream interpreter, had a mother from Daldis and signed himself after the town. An Olympic wrestling champion, Marcus Aurelius Pius, came from here too. Today almost all of it is underground and unexcavated, with scattered remains in the villages and a Lydian aqueduct still standing.
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- Antiquity's most famous dream interpreter, Artemidorus, signed himself after this town.
- An Olympic wrestling champion, Marcus Aurelius Pius, came from here.
- The city may have carried the name Flaviocaesaria for a period.
- Part of the Lydian aqueduct that fed it is still standing.
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