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Modern Description: Stephanos Byzantios records five cities called Daskyleion in W Asia Minor, one of which, according to Xenophon (Hell. 4.1.15; Hell. Oxyrhynchia 17.3), was the residence of Pharanabazus, Persian satrap of the Hellespont and Phrygia. This has been identified with the city mound called Hisartepe on the SW shore of Lake Manyas, near Ergili, where excavations have yielded many Achaemenid bullae in Graeco-Persian style bearing Aramaic inscriptions. Consequently the lake is to be identified with *daskuli/tis *li/mnh: according to Strabo (12.575) Daskyleion lay on this lake.
Three Graeco-Persian funerary stelai found in Daskyleion are now in the Istanbul museum. (E. AKURGAL)
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dascylium
Wikidata ID: Q1171924
Trismegistos Geo: 52465

Info: Princeton Encyclopedia

(Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, from Perseus Project)

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