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City |
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Aegean |
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Mugla |
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Milas |
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Village:
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Merkez |
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Investigation Method:
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Survey |
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Classical |
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| Karakuyu and Chalcetor are reached through a road deviating to the left 9.65 km after while driving from the Milas District of the Mugla Province to the Bafa Lake. The name Chalcetor means "Bronze Heart". It is believed that it is in Greek; however it was originated from the Anatolian name. It was visited by Paton; Myres and Cousin at the end of the 19th century; followed by investigations of Akarca in 1940s. The city was a member of the Delian League. The acropolis is on a piny hill so called Taz Hill. A Lelegian temenos wall consisting of block stones encloses a temple. There are no other traces of a remain or a city wall. However; it is believed that the two fortresses called Kale and Asar guarded the city. They are approximately 1.6 km away from the Kösk Village. Some walls with a height of 1.52 m and a thickness varying from 3.66 m to 4.57 m were identified. At the skirt of the mountain; a big block with a relief frieze and an unfluted column drum with a height of 1.52 m; and 61 cm diameter in Ionic or Corinthian order; probably of the Temple of Apollo were found. An inscription records the name Chalcetor; and a sympoliteia agreement. Other than this; a three-line text in Carian language was uncovered. At present; the Karakuyu road runs over the necropolis. There are several types of graves. Among them are graves made of big stone blocks like underground grave chambers; plain shallow graves; and relief sarcophagi [Bean 2000:33-34]. Peschlow reports that the fortresses he found during a survey conducted in 1979 on the Göbek Mountain near Chalcetor bear Lelegian characteristics in the outer surfaces; however they can be dated to the Hellenistic Period in terms of the distribution of towers and the location of the gate [Peschlow 1980:216]. |
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