Its site is identified in the Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire as Akörü Yayla, near
Sütleğen, about 25 kilometres north of
Kaş in
Antalya Province,
Turkey.[7] The Annuario Pontifico gives its location as Küçükahuriyala,[8] also near Sütleğen.
Site
The ruins are plentiful but in a poor state. They include part of the well-built city wall, a theatre, a stadium, a paved agora with stoa and some bases bearing inscriptions. The necropolis to the west includes sarcophagi and constructed tombs.[9]
History
Apart from its mention by
Ptolemy[10] and by Hierocles in the
Synecdemus (ca. 535 AD), where it is misspelled "Misae" (Μίσαι),[11] and in the Notitiae Episcopatuum, nothing is known of the town's history. The only known coin that it issued is of a type that does not show membership of the
Lycian League.[9]
^Susini, G.C. (1961).
Lycia et Pamphylia. Treccani. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
^Smith, William.
"Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854)". Retrieved 29 January 2015. calls the town Nysa and speaks of it as being in
Pisidia, but the other sources cited distinguish between Nisa (in Lycia) and Nysa (elsewhere).