Pinara Ancient City

This guide to Pinara, the Lycian ruins above Muğla, opens with a silver coin struck here around 400 BC bearing the face of the local ruler Kherei rather than a god, and traces what that break with convention meant for how the city ran. It follows Pinara into the Lycian federal league's system of weighted votes, where wealth translated directly into political voice. Look up at the cliff face behind you, honeycombed with rock-cut tombs that only the wealthy dead could afford.