Lyrbe
Ancient city in Cilicia
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Lyrbe (spelled Lyrba in the 1910 Catholic Encyclopedia; Ancient Greek: Λύρβη) was an ancient city and later episcopal see in the Roman province of Pamphylia Prima and is now a titular see.[1]
2012.jpg) A general view of Lyrbe | |
  Lyrba Shown within Turkey | |
| Location | Antalya Province, Turkey |
|---|---|
| Region | Pamphylia |
| Coordinates | 36°52′29″N 31°28′24″E |
| Type | Settlement |
| Site notes | |
| Condition | In ruins |
Its site is identified with that about 1 km north of modern Bucakşeyhler,[2][3]
History
Its name is only known by its coins and the mention made of it by Dionysius Periegetes,[4] Ptolemy,[5] and Hierocles.[6][7] Dionysius places the town in Pisidia, while William Smith equates Lyrbe with the Lyrope (Λυρόπη), mentioned by Ptolemy and placed by the ancient geographer in Cilicia Trachaea.[8]
The Notitiae episcopatuum mention Lyrba as an episcopal see, suffragan of the archbishopric of Side, up to the 12th and 13th centuries. Two of its bishops are known: Caius, who attend the First Council of Constantinople in 381, and Taurianus at the First Council of Ephesus in 431 (Le Quien, Oriens christianus, I, 1009); Zeuxius was not Bishop of Lyrba, as Le Quien states, but of Syedra.[7]
The Site
There are extensive remains of an agora 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.
