Sunday, October 31, 2010

Anemurium

A few miles west of Anemur is the ruined Roman city of Anemurium, right on the beach, flourishing for hundreds of years, then toppled by the 580 earth-quake and then, after the decline of Roman and Byzantine seapower, so vulverable to pirate raids it was never again re-occupied. We're beginning to understand that there are not half a dozen of these cities, or a dozen, but scores, just in Turkey.
A bit of the scope of the thing...














Palaestra...sort of the municipal Gold's Gym














Byzantine basilica














Aquaduct














Baths














Baths from above














Wall, upper reaches on the mountain














Looking back across the bay to Anemur














And its many high-rises













Pebble Beach














And a necroplis that seemed much larger than the city... what you might expect 
for a place with stable population for 8 or 9 centuries and their mortuary customs

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