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| Location | Türkbükü Bay,Turkey |
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| Coordinates | 37°7′43″N27°23′21″E / 37.12861°N 27.38917°E /37.12861; 27.38917 |
| Type | settlement |
| History | |
| Founded | Archaic Period |
Madnasa (Ancient Greek:Μάδνασα), orMedmasa (Μέδμασα),[1] also known asMedmasus orMedmasos (Μέδμασος), was a town inancient Caria, at the Myndos Peninsula, and is currently anarchaeological site near upperGöl, about 13 km northeast ofMyndos. In 5th century BCE the city was included in theDelian League andAthenian tribute lists.[2]
Pliny the Elder (5.107) calls the cityMedmasa, reporting that with five moreLelegian settlements was assigned byAlexander the Great to the jurisdiction of Halicarnassus. In fact their incorporation intoHalicarnassus is credited to the CariansatrapMausolus in 4th century BCE. The city is quoted byStephanos Byzantios in thegeographicallexiconEthnika fromHekataios'sfragmenta, where it seems that the city had the archaic name Kurbasa.[3]
The earliest reference to the city comes from the description of three Carian sites by W.R., Paton, J.L. Myres, & E.L. Hicks at 1894.[4] Later, Bean identified the city with the visible ruins on the hill aboveTürkbükü Bay and lower Göl.[5]
The site at Göl is referred 300 by 90 m, with awall of polygonalmasonry and at the highest point there is an ashlar tower.Cisterns and numerous house foundations are still visible. A group oftombs was cut into the rock-face at the west end of the site.Ostraka are dated to 5th and early 4th centuryBCE.[6]
[...]The polis name Kurbasa clearly has the same root kurb- and dated to the archaic period as it was recorded by Hekataios, Asia (per Herodian Prosody s.v.Medmasa, c.180-250CE) and Stephanos,Ethnika s.v.Kurbasa, c.sixth century CE.[...]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Medmasa".Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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