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Modern Description: A SubMycenaean cemetery (11th century BC) which continued in use during the Early Iron Age. Near Assarlik on a hill above Ceşmebaşi (Asat). Termera, the most important Lelegian city before the founding of Myndus, took part in the synoecism of Halicarnassus. In the 6th and 5th centuries BC it was governed by a family of tyrants called 'Temnes'. An acropolis with ruined buildings and part of the outer fortification enceinte in which an arched gateway is also preserved. The citadel forms a nearly level platform c. 40 m. long on the peak of a dominant hill, whose slopes and precipitous on the NE; it enjoys a commanding view in all directions it is overlooked by the lofty range of the Termerian promontory. There wall in smallish squared masonry surrounding the summit, and the outline can be followed in the eastern part by the cuttings made to receive the wall. The corner cuttings show that the wall was carried out on to a natural bastion or pinnacle of rock.( Bean 1955)
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termera
Wikidata ID: Q6556832
Trismegistos Geo: 58968
DARE: 30803

Info: Archaeological Atlas of the Aegean

(Archaeological Atlas of the Aegean, Ministry of the Aegean)

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