Sidyma Ancient City
Remote Lycian hill town whose ruined agora, temple tomb, and dozens of rock-cut graves sit inside a living village.
This guide to Sidyma, a Lycian hill town above the Xanthos valley near Muğla, opens with an inscription naming Epigapos, personal physician to the emperor Claudius, who paid for the city's agora out of his own pocket despite the town's near-total obscurity to ancient writers. It follows why Sidyma's stones carry only Greek rather than the Lycian script every neighboring city used, and walks through the roughly one hundred rock-cut tombs, olive groves, and house walls built straight into Roman masonry that now share the site with a living village. You'll also hear about the tomb of Flavia Nanne, a priestess of the imperial cult, whose coffered ceiling and carved portraits still survive inside it.
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