Bubon or Boubon () was a city of

ancient Lycia Lycia (; Lycian language, Lycian: 𐊗𐊕𐊐𐊎𐊆𐊖 ''Trm̃mis''; , ; ) was a historical region in Anatolia from 15–14th centuries BC (as Lukka lands, Lukka) to 546 BC. It bordered the Mediterranean Sea in what is today the Prov ...

noted by

Stephanus of Byzantium Stephanus or Stephen of Byzantium (; , ''Stéphanos Byzántios''; centuryAD) was a Byzantine grammarian and the author of an important geographical dictionary entitled ''Ethnica'' (). Only meagre fragments of the dictionary survive, but the epit ...

; the ethnic name, he adds, ought to be Βουβώνιος, but it is Βουβωνεύς, for the Lycians rejoice in this form. The truth of this observation of Stephanus is proved by the inscription found on the spot: Βουβωνέων ἡ Βουλὴ καὶ ὁ Δῆμος. Bubon is located west of ancient Balbura, near Ibecik, as confirmed by modern scholars. The city stood on a hill side commanding the entrance to the pass over the mountains. Bubon is mentioned by Pliny,

Ptolemy Claudius Ptolemy (; , ; ; – 160s/170s AD) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine science, Byzant ...

, and Hierocles. Pliny mentions a kind of chalk (creta) that was found about Bubon. Bubon, along with Balbura and Oenoanda formed the district of Cabalia. There is a small theatre built of sandstone and on the summit of the hill was the acropolis.

Bishopric

Bubon was a

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, a

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of the

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Myra Myra (; , ''Mýra'') was a city in Lycia. The city was probably founded by Lycians on the river Myros (; Turkish: ''Demre Çay''), in the fertile alluvial plain between, the Massikytos range (Turkish: ''Alaca Dağ'') and the Aegean Sea. By the ...

, the capital of the

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of Lycia. The names of two of its bishops, both called Romanus, are recorded in extant documents. One of them was at the

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in 381. The other attended the

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in 451 and was a signatory of the protest letter that the bishops of the province of Lycia sent in 458 to

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over the killing of

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. No longer a residential bishopric, Bubon is today listed by the

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as a

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.''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 853

References

* H. A. Ekinci: ''Boubon kurtarma kazısı 1993'' escue excavations in Bubon 1993 In: ''V. Müze Kurtarma Kazıları Semineri, Didim 25 - 28 nisan 1994''. Ankara 1995, S. 333-343. * Hansgerd Hellenkemper, Friedrich Hild: ''Lykien und Pamphylien''. Tabula Imperii Byzantini 8. Wien 2004, S. 487-489. * Jale İnan: ''Der Bronzetorso im Burdur-Museum aus Bubon und der Bronzekopf im J. Paul Getty Museum''. In: ''Istanbuler Mitteilungen'' 27-28, 1977-78, S. 267-287. * Jale İnan: ''Der Bronzetorso im Typ des Diskophoros von Polyklet im Burdur-Museum''. In: ''Polykletforschungen''. Berlin 1993, S. 41-56. * Jale İnan: ''Neue Forschungen zum Sebasteion von Boubon und seinen Statuen''. In: ''Akten des II. Internationalen Lykien-Symposions, Wien 6.-12. Mai 1990''. Bd. 1, Wien 1993, S. 213-239. * Jale İnan: ''Boubon sebasteionu ve heykelleri üzerine son araştırmalar''. ecent studies on Sebasteion and the statues of BubonArkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları, İstanbul 1994. * Christopher P. Jones: ''Some new inscriptions from Bubon''. In: ''Istanbuler Mitteilungen'' 27-28, 1977-78, S. 288-296. * Christina Kokkinia (ed):
''Boubon. The Inscriptions and Archaeological Remains: A Survey 2004-2006''. Athens 2008"

. * A. P. Kozloff: ''Bubon. A re-assessment of the provenance''. In: ''Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art'' 74, 1987, S. 131-143. * N. Milner: ''An inscription from Bubon''. In: ''Studies in the history and topography of Lycia and Pisidia. In memoriam A. S. Hall''. London 1994, S. 93-94. * Friedrich Schindler: ''Die Inschriften von Bubon (Nordlykien)''. Wien 1972 (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte 278, 3
Text of the inscriptions
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External links

Bubon at the Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites
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