Location | Antalya Province, Turkey |
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Region | Pamphylia |
Coordinates | 36°52′29″N 31°28′24″E / 36.87477°N 31.47344°E |
Type | Settlement |
Site notes | |
Condition | In ruins |
Lyrbe (spelled Lyrba in the 1910 Catholic Encyclopedia; Ancient Greek: Λύρβη) was an ancient city and later episcopal see in the Roman province of Pamphylia Prima and is now a titular see. [1]
Its site is identified with that about 1 km north of modern Bucakşeyhler, [2] [3]
Its name is only known by its coins and the mention made of it by Dionysius Periegetes, [4] Ptolemy, [5] and Hierocles. [6] [7] Dionysius places the town in Pisidia, while William Smith equates Lyrbe with the Lyrope (Λυρόπη), mentioned by Ptolemy and placed by the ancient geographer in Cilicia Trachaea. [8]
The Notitiae episcopatuum mention Lyrba as an episcopal see, suffragan of the archbishopric of Side, up to the 12th and 13th centuries. Two of its bishops are known: Caius, who attend the First Council of Constantinople in 381, and Taurianus at the First Council of Ephesus in 431 ( Le Quien, Oriens christianus, I, 1009); Zeuxius was not Bishop of Lyrba, as Le Quien states, but of Syedra. [7]
There are extensive remains of an agora containing a row of two-storey and three-storey building façades, a gate, a mausoleum, a Roman bath, a necropolis, in addition to several temples and churches.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Lyrbe". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.