Antiphellus or Antiphellos ( grc, ) was city that acted as the port of Phellus (Phellos) in

Lycia Lycia ( Lycian: 𐊗𐊕𐊐𐊎𐊆𐊖 ''Trm̃mis''; el, Λυκία, ; tr, Likya) was a state or nationality that flourished in Anatolia from 15–14th centuries BC (as Lukka) to 546 BC. It bordered the Mediterranean Sea in what is t ...

. It was at the head of a bay on the south coast. Sir

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, the discoverer of this ancient site, gave the contemporary name of Vathy to the bay at the head of which Antiphellus stands. Pliny says that its ancient (i.e. pre- Hellenic) name was Habessus; he also remarks on the quality of its

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s. Strabo (14:666) incorrectly places Antiphellus among the inland towns. The Lycian settlement here left hillside tombs, among which is a sarcophagus on a high base with a long inscription in "Lycian B", now generally identified as Milyan, a

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. Native inscriptions in Lycian language are dated as late as the fourth century BCE. As Antiphellus the site is first recorded in Greek inscriptions of the same century. An inscription copied by Sir

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at this place in 1840, contains the ethnic name ΑΝΤΙΦΕΛΛΕΙΤΟΥ. The well-preserved little Hellenistic theater overlooking the sea is complete, with the exception of the

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. As Phellos declined im importance during the

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period, Antiphellus grew to be the major city of the region. Coins of Antiphellus of the Roman imperial period bear the legend Ἀντιφελλειτων. The site of Antiphellus is now in the municipality of

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, which before the forcible

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of 1922-23 was Andifili and in the 19th century Andiffelo Antiphellus, all but deserted by 1828 and built up in the following decades, became known during the mid-19th century, both to scholars and travelers. Fellows (1841) gave a page of drawings of specimens of ends of

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, pediments, and doors of tombs, and there is a ground-plan of Antiphelius in Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt's ''Travels in Lycia, Milyas, and the Cibyratis'', 1847.

Bishopric

The

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of Antiphellus was a

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of the

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of Myra, the capital of the

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of Lycia. Its bishop Theodorus took part in the

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in 451. He also attended the provincial synod held in 458 in connection with the murder of

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, but because of health difficulties affecting his hands, the acts of the meeting were signed on his behalf by the priest Eustathius. No longer a residential bishopric, Antiphellus is today listed by the

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as a

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.''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 833

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