2012.jpg) A general view of Lyrbe | |
  Lyrba Shown within Turkey | |
| Location | Antalya Province,Turkey |
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| Region | Pamphylia |
| Coordinates | 36°52′29″N31°28′24″E / 36.87477°N 31.47344°E /36.87477; 31.47344 |
| Type | Settlement |
| Site notes | |
| Condition | In ruins |
Lyrbe (spelledLyrba in the 1910Catholic Encyclopedia;Ancient Greek:Λύρβη) was an ancient city and laterepiscopal see in theRoman province ofPamphylia Prima and is now atitular see.[1]
Its site is identified with that about 1 km north of modernBucakşeyhler,[2][3]
Its name is only known by its coins and the mention made of it byDionysius Periegetes,[4]Ptolemy,[5] andHierocles.[6][7] Dionysius places the town inPisidia, whileWilliam Smith equates Lyrbe with theLyrope (Λυρόπη), mentioned byPtolemy and placed by the ancient geographer inCilicia Trachaea.[8]
TheNotitiae episcopatuum mention Lyrba as an episcopal see,suffragan of thearchbishopric of Side, up to the 12th and 13th centuries. Two of its bishops are known: Caius, who attend theFirst Council of Constantinople in 381, and Taurianus at theFirst Council of Ephesus in 431 (Le Quien,Oriens christianus, I, 1009); Zeuxius was not Bishop of Lyrba, as Le Quien states, but ofSyedra.[7]
There are extensive remains of anagora containing a row of two-storey and three-storey building façades, a gate, a mausoleum, a Roman bath, a necropolis, in addition to several temples and churches.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Lyrbe".Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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