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Öküzlü is an archaeological site in Mersin Province, Turkey.
The house ruins in the north of the site are examples of the polygonal and Byzantine masonry. One house is a peristyle house. The foundations of some buildings are carved rock. There are sarcophagi along the road. At the center of the site there are ruins of a basilica. The basilica with three naves and a transept is backdated to about 500. There is a smaller church situated about south of the basilica.Mersin Valiliği: ''Mersin Ören yerleri, Kaleleri, Müzeleri'', İstanbul, 2009, , p 166-167
Geography
Öküzlü (''Öküzlüklü'') is situated in the rural area ofErdemli
Erdemli is a town and district of Mersin Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey, west of the city of Mersin.
Geography
Erdemli is located between the districts of Mezitli (to the east) and Silifke (to the west). In the north, Erdemli i ...
district which is rich in archaeological ruins. It is close to Batısandal
Batısandal (meaning "west sandalwood" named after Santalum album, a common tree) is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Erdemli, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 744 (2022). It is situated in the hilly region to the sout ...
village at about . There are many ruins around Öküzlü . Kanlıdivane
Kanlıdivane (''ancient'' Canytelis, Greek: Κανυτελής) is an ancient city situated around a big sinkhole in Mersin Province, Turkey.
Geography
Kanlıdivane is in the rural area of Erdemli district, which is a part of Mersin Province at ...
and Elaiussa Sebaste
Elaiussa Sebaste or Elaeousa Sebaste ( el, Ελαιούσα Σεβαστή) was an ancient Roman town located from Mersin in the direction of Silifke in Cilicia on the southern coast of Anatolia (in the modern-day town of Ayaş (there is a like-n ...
are to the south, Emirzeli
Emirzeli (İmirzeli) is a group of ruins in Mersin Province, Turkey.
Location
Emirzeli is a part of Karahmetli village in Erdemli district of Mersin Province at . The road to Emirzeli detaches from Turkish state highway . Kanlıdivane, an i ...
is to the west, Tapureli ruins
Tapureli ruins are in Mersin Province, Turkey.
Geography
Limonlu River is a small river in Erdemli district of Mersin Province. It was named ''Lamos River'' in the antiquity and it was usually taken as the borderline between ''Cilicia Trachaea' ...
are to the north of Öküzlü. Highway distance to the coastal town of Ayaş on Turkish state highway is . Öküzlü is also accessible from Limonlu (Lamos of the antiquity). Its distance to Erdemli is and to Mersin
Mersin (), also known as İçel, is a large city and a port on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey. It is the provincial capital of Mersin Province, Mersin (İçel) Province. It is made up of four municipalities and dis ...
is .
History
The original name of the site is not known. Turkish name Öküzlü (literally "with ox") refers to reliefs of oxen on column heads (now in Mersin Museum). Archaeological evidence from masonry imply that the site can be backdated toHellenistic
In Classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in ...
era. It was however reconstructed in the 5th or 6th centuries, i.e., early Byzantine era.
The ruins
The house ruins in the north of the site are examples of the polygonal and Byzantine masonry. One house is a peristyle house. The foundations of some buildings are carved rock. There are sarcophagi along the road. At the center of the site there are ruins of a basilica. The basilica with three naves and a transept is backdated to about 500. There is a smaller church situated about south of the basilica.Mersin Valiliği: ''Mersin Ören yerleri, Kaleleri, Müzeleri'', İstanbul, 2009, , p 166-167
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