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Modern Description: Neapolis: First noted in 1996; detailed surveys of this settlement were completed in 2004. The name of this settlement was identified by B. İplikçioğlu and his team. Surveyed by N. Çevik and his team, the settlement is located towards the top of Keldağ rising behind and to the northwest of Doyran. The visible remains date from the Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine periods. According to the inscribed block, re-used as a lintel on the door of the basilica, it was a peripolion of Termessos, its link to the sea. The settlement stands upon a very steep rocky hill and can be accessed only by a narrow rock-cut path alongside which extends the necropolis; a fortification wall was unnecessary due to its inaccessible location. In addition to the Zeus Temple, which possibly lies beneath the Byzantine church, temples dedicated to Artemis and to Dionysos were identified. Another building was understood to have a function related with a cult because of a large monolithic altar and the hardly legible inscription records the name Aurelios Trokondas… It is far from the rest of the buildings. Its careful stone-workmanship indicates its religious function. Due to the dense Byzantine settlement around the church (Fig. 27) and the debris, not much remains from the public buildings and monuments. The first two buildings at the northern end of the town centre are U-shaped exedrae, adjacent to each other. Further south is another exedra, a circular one, which was investigated in 2003. This main street is embellished with statue bases, inscribed on one of which is the name of the Emperor Commodus. The town is arranged into easily discernible quarters and are usually connected to each other via stepped streets. At and around the settlement there are many workplaces for grapes and olives and the associated cultivatable land and some of these work-areas provided us with some unique examples. There is a three-aisled Early Byzantine church in the centre of Neapolis and a monastic complex at Kisle Çukuru with a church, kitchens, storehouses, monks’ cells, latrines etc. Palamut Düzü has two rich layers dating from the Byzantine period.
DARE: 43025

Info: Çevik 2008

Nevzat ÇEVİK, Northeast Lycia. The New Evidence – Results from the past ten years from the Bey Mountains Surface Surveys academia.edu

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