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Modern Description: This site, also called Erenmezarlik, crowns a mastoid hill, fairly steep on all sides and rising to perhaps 250 m., which forms the southernmost peak of the chain of bare hills behind Myndus. It commands the coastal plain of Karatoprak and an extensive view inland. On the summit are the foundations of a tower c. 10.5 m. square, of irregular masonry roughly squared at the corners with a wall thickness of 0o90 m.; 142 inside this foundation sits a Turkish burial enclosure. Around the hilltop runs an irregular ring wall in loose polygonal or dry rubble enclosing an area not more than c. 80 m. across. We observed no sure trace of an outer circuit; but sherds are abundant for some distance down the hillside, and thus attest considerable occupation, which can be assigned to both prehistoric and classical times.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaemyndus
Wikidata ID: Q65065065
Trismegistos Geo: 61462
DARE: 29021

Info: Bean 1955

Bean and Cook, The Halicarnassus Peninsula, ABSA 1955

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