Arsada orArsadus was a city ofancient Lycia, located over the valley of theXanthus between the ancient cities ofTlos andXanthus.[1]
Its site is located nearArsaköy a neighborhood of the municipality and district ofSeydikemer,Muğla Province,Turkey.[2][3]
The site was visited byThomas Abel Brimage Spratt in the 19th century, where he found rock tombs, on two of which were inscriptions. "There are several Greek inscriptions; in two of them mention is made of the name of the place." One inscription is given in Spratt'sLycia,[4] from which it appears that the ancient name was not Arsa, as it is assumed in the work referred to, but Arsadus, or Arsada (like Arycanda), as the ethnic name, which occurs twice in the inscription, shows (Ἀρσαδέων ὁ δῆμος, and Ἀρσαδέα, in the accusative singular.) The inscription is on a sarcophagus, and records that the Demus honoured a certain person with a gold crown and a bronze statue for certain services to the community. The inscription shows that there was a temple ofApollo at this place.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Arsada".Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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