Caria, Milas 450 - 400 BC Scorpion & Lion Ancient silver stater Coin


Caria, Milas 450 - 400 BC Scorpion & Lion Ancient silver stater Coin

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Reference:SNG Kayhan 934; Rosen 403 Scarce ; SNG von Aulock 7803,Klein429 (Milet)

Theprincipal non-Greek city of Caria, Mylasa was situated west ofStratonikeia and not far from the head of the Bargylian gulf. Itbecame the capital of the country under the satrap Hekatomnos,395-377 BCE, but his successor, Maussollos, removed the seat ofgovernment to Halikarnassos, circa 367 BCE.

Gümüşkesenchambered tomb monument in Milas, built
during the city\'s RomanPeriod and modeled on the Mausoleumof Mausolus

Thecentre of Milas presents the overall characteristics of a well-growncity focused on agriculturaland aquaculturalprocessing, related industrial activities, services, transportation(particularly since the opening of Milas-BodrumAirport),tourismand culture. The center is at a distance of about twenty km from thecoast and is actually closer to the airport than Bodrumitself, with many late arrival passengers of the high seasonincreasingly opting to stay in Milas rather than in Bodrum whereaccommodation is likely to be difficult to find.

Milasdistrict covers a total area of 2167 km2 and this area follows atotal coastline length of 150 km, both to the north-west in the Gulfof Güllükand to the south along the Gulfof Gökova,and to these should be added the shores of LakeBafain the north divided between the district area of Milas and that ofAydındistrict of Söke.

Alongwith the province seat of Muğlaand the province\'s southernmost district of Fethiye,Milas is among the prominent settlements of south-west Turkey, thesethree centers being on a par with each other in terms of all-yearpopulation and the area their depending districts cover. Fivetownships which have their own municipalities and a total of 114villages depend Milas, distinguishing the district with a recordnumber of dependent settlements for a very wide surrounding region.Milas center is situated on a fertile plain at the foot of MountSodra on and around which sizable quarries of the white marbleare found and have been used since very ancient times.

Milas\'spolitical color has been center-left for the last decade.

Thecity\'s earliest historical mention is at the beginning of the 7thcentury BCE, when a Carianleader from Mylasa by name Arselis is recorded to have helped Gygesof Lydiain his contest for the Lydianthrone. The same episode is at the origin of the accounts surroundingthe beginning of the cult for and the erection of the statue ofLabrandean Zeus in the neighboring city of Labranda,held sacred by peoples across western Anatolia, with the statueholding the labrysbrought over by Arselis from Lydia.Labrandean Zeus (sometimesalso named \"Zeus Stratios\")was one of the three deities proper to Mylasa, all named Zeus buteach bearing indigenous characteristics. Of these, the cult of ZeusCarius (CarianZeus)was also notable in being exclusively reserved, aside from theCarians, to their Lydian and Mysiankinsmen. One of the finest temples was also the one dedicated to ZeusOsogoa (originally, just Osogoa),traceable to times when the Carians had been a maritime folk andwhich recalled to Pausaniasthe Acropolisof Athens.

Romanperiod

In40 BCE Mylasa suffered great damage when it was taken by Labienusin the RomanCivil War.In the Greco-Roman period, though the city was contested among thesuccessors of Alexander, it enjoyed a season of brilliant prosperity,and the three neighboring towns of Euromus,Olymosand Labrandawere included within its limits. Mylasa is frequently mentioned byancient writers. At the time of Strabo the city boasted tworemarkable orators, Euthydemos and Hybreas. Various inscriptions tellus that the Phrygiancults were represented here by the worship of Sabazios;the Egyptian, by that of Isisand Osiris.There was also a temple of Nemesis.An inscription from Mylasa provided one of the few certain data aboutthe life of CorneliusTacitus,identifying him as governor of Asiain 112-13.


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