Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Sites Old and New in Rough Cilicia

1962; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 12; Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/3642524

2048-0849

George Ewart Bean, T. B. Mitford,

Eurasian Exchange Networks

In June 1961 the writers gave three weeks to exploring the country in the neighbourhood of Alânya, the ancient Coracesium, and Gazipaşa, formerly Selinti, the ancient Selinus. This region proved to be rewarding; and we hope to pursue our investigations both there and to the east of Anamur in future years—the more so since our predecessors have been few and often hampered by the difficulties of the terrain. Some indeed, like Beaufort, travelled almost exclusively by sea; others found themselves detained by the archaeological richness of the Olba–Lamos area, and then, like Sterrett and Theodore Bent, diverted up the Calycadnus gorge into the hinterland of Isauria. Explorers of the coastlands between Manavgat and Silifke are in effect reduced to Heberdey and Wilhelm (quoted hereafter as HW ) in 1892, Paribeni and Romanelli in 1913, Wilhelm and Keil in 1914. To those familiar with this country it is revealing to learn that Wilhelm's visits—for example to Sinekkalesi and Syedra, extensive sites, heavily scrub-covered—were often brief affairs; that his exploration of Seleucia above Side and indeed of all the coast lying immediately to the east of the Melas river was cut short by repeated thunder-storms.