Lyrnai or Lyrna () was an inland town 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 ...

, inhabited during

Hellenistic In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Greek history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the R ...

times. Its name does not occur among ancient authors, but known from

epigraphic Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the wr ...

evidence. Per the '' Stadiasmus Patarensis'' Lyrnai was in the territory of

Octapolis Octapolis or Oktapolis () was a city of ancient Caria or Lycia. Per the Stadiasmus Patarensis it included the town of Lyrnai as one of eight constituent settlements implied by the name "8-city". It is noted by Ptolemy Claudius Ptolemy (; , ...

and the destination of a road from Calynda. Its site is unlocated, but is hypothesized to be near Çukurhisar in Asiatic Turkey.

References

Populated places in ancient Lycia Former populated places in Turkey History of Muğla Province {{Muğla-geo-stub