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Olympos

Unblinking flame very near to it in Lykia and Hephaestus culture concerning this makes the city very famous in ancient history.
However after AC. 3rd century piracy has started again and continuous depredations and attacks made the city pooper.
Fortified castles were constructed by Venice, Genoese and Rhodes chevaliers in Olimpos within this period. It was left completely after 15th century.

City was established over the two sides of a river flowing to the sea.
River was a channel and landing deck during ancient times in order to provide transportation

Olympos is the mountain of mythological Gods. Olympos is the mountain of Zeus, God of Gods, and Gods come together on it and make decisions. There are unblinking flames on this mountain.

You can watch any kind of view that will satisfy your needs from the foothill of Tahtalı Mountain that you can reach after 8km mountain road from Tekirova. Phaselis, Olimpos and Yanartaş Çıralı complete this beautiful landscape.

Large Bath

	Large Bath The structure known as the Large Bath belong to the era of Vespassianus. From the construction of its walls the structure might be dated to the years from 70 BC.
“Caesar Vespasianus Augustus, just lord of land and sea, had these baths built from their foundations at the behest of Gnaius Auidius, his delegate and proprietor”. This bath is one of the first, dating to first century A.D. and reflect continuation of the region’s earlier social distinction despite the incursions of piracy

Monumental Grave

Monumental Grave
During archeological digs of Antalya Museum, a sarcophagus is found out belonging to an unknown captain of Mediterranean Sea. It was made of limestone and appears to be at the bottom part of two storied grave room

carved into the main rock. In the room there was another sarcophagus made of marble On top of the door of grave room, there was a lintel stone on which it was written in old Greek Language that this was a family grave made by Zosimas from Olympos for his family and uncle Eudemos and added that if anybody used this grave without permission, then he should pay a fine to city council.
On the sarcophagus and on a broken table, it was written that the sarcophagus was belonged to an Olyposian named Captain Eudemos who had sailed to Marmara and Black Sea and had a good reputation and had the honorary citizenship of Kalkhedon (in Istanbul today).

Just under the frame there was a relief o a boat resembling to sponge fishing boats “tirhandlis” which do not exist today and at the bottom sternpost of the boat there was relief of goddess Aphrodithe born in Mediterranean. One of responsibilities of this goddess of love and beauty was to protect sailor. At right side of the frame there is an epitaph consisting of four lines, the translation and interpretation of which is written below:
“The sip is entered and anchored in the last port, for not to go out any more. Because there is no more benefit from the wind nor from the day light. After leaving the morning twilight the Captain Eudemos, Burried there his short-lived ship like a broken wave”. The archeological finds of the dig are being exhibited in Antalya Museum now.

Mosaics Building

Mosaics Building
In 1992, Building with Mosaic was cleaned and investigated by Anatalya Archaeology Museum. It was built at the end of the 5th century AD. And there are many appositions until beginning of 6th century A.D.

The building is double storeyed. The bottom floor consists of o central room with an asymmetric arrangement of rooms leading off from either side of it Walls made from rubble stone and lime mortar attracted attention with their ornamental brick work.

Each room has mosaic floor. The eastern staircase led to the second floor built on the bottom floor does. To the north and south, traces of the walls of the second storey, though minimal, can also be seen. There is no second floor above the central area. Like the first floor, the second floor has fine work mosaic decorated with bird and other animal motifs.

Today the mosaic can be seen on the ground with collapsing the second floor. The first floor was covered in domes made from stone and brick. And the second probably has s wooden structure covered in tiles. The building was probably used as a religious functional house.

North Necropolis

North Necropolis
The North Necropolis is positioned on the banks of the north Akcay Creek.
The north necropolis, in which a total of 113 tombs have been identified has a somewhat sprawling layout.

While tombs of the South necropolis are largely attaches one to the other, here there are considerable distance between them and little attempt align them on any clear axis is evident. The monumental tomb of Macus Aurelius and Antimachos sarcophagus are also built onThe North necropolis near the channels and Mosaic Building.

The Lycia sarcophagus is encircled the buildings which dated to the Byzantine period. It is thought also that the churches were built in the Necropolis, the Roman tombs also reused in the late period. North necropolis is dated between 1rst- 3rd century AD. But the tombs also reused in the Byzantine times in the necropolis

Sarcophagus.

	Sarcophagus. The sarcophagus of Antiachos is on the North Necropolis. The lid form is Lykia type. The reliefs are carved on the chest. The corner plasters on the front and short faces of the chest. There is a pseudo-door on the short face of the chest.
It is symbolic door which means a door goes to the Hedes (Underworld). There is family tree carved on the corner plaster. The means of the family tree is eternity. The family tree motive is began from 3rd Thousand B.C. The sarcophagus is dated to between the middle and last quarter of the 2nd century A.D.

South Necropolis

South Necropolis

The South necropolis is positioned on the banks of the south Akcay Creek.
The tour-path, beginning at the necropolis is likely to have been used in a similar way in the Ancient Era.

A total of 354 tombs have been identified in the west section, which has a layout of barrel-vaulted tombs of its upper area are mostly two storied. A total 56 tombs have been identified theatre.
The closeness of the tombs to the theatre suggests a connection with the ceremonial rites of Dionysus performed here. South necropolis is dated between 1st-3rd century A.D.

Byzantine Olympos, as observed in many other Lycian towns, was not averse to using the necropolis, the lands of the Dead; on the contrary, the necropolis was turned into an area of particularly dense habitation. The presence of churches there suggests that Roman tombs were later used for Christian intermed.

The Beach

	The Beach The beach is more than 2 km long, and is today an important place for sea turtles that every year come to lay their eggs on the beach.

Theatre

	Theatre The Theatre is located on the south side of Olympos There is a theatre in the south part of Olympos. It’s cavea end scene are in a very poor state of preservation, probably the result in part of the major earthquake that affected the whole Lycia in 141 A.D.
It is not known whether repairs were done after that date, but even if it was damaged in the earthquake, the existence o f a citizen holding the title of Lyciarch in the second century A.D. would indicate the likelihood of its repair being financed by such a wealth individual. After the earthquake of 141 A.D., the town suffered another major quake. The state of the theatre we witness today is likely to be outcome of its one, together with second use of the building material in medieval.

The structure has been dated to the Roma era. Evidence for this comes from its neighboring town, Phaselis. There is a inscription which found in Phaselis dated to 131-138 AD., the theatre must belong to the first half of the second century AD. The topographic character of Olympos renders north and north-east orientations the most suitable, and the north has been favored. It is noteworthy that this theatre was built in the area of the necropolis, like some other comparable examples in Lycia. In the towns of Kyaneai, Xanthos, Myra and Tlos, a closeness of distance is observed between the theatre and necropolis, as is the fact that the necropolis is used in some cases as a kind of backdrop to the theatre.

From the point of view of plan-type, the cavea sections of the Roman-looking Olympos theatre, is one of a few examples of a semi circular plan. The cavea section displays a close resemblance to the theatre of Phaselis, so does the floor also appear likely to be of compressed earth. Twenty rows of seat have been identified. The analemna wall is along the same lines as the cavea. The west parade wall is vaulted.

Hoplon Sarcophagus

	Hoplon Sarcophagus This sarcophagus remaining as in situ on the podium being at the right side of the Grave room is a “half manufactured Girland Sarcophagus” which is named as “ Proconnesos Type”. It was made of white marble of Proconnesos (Marmara Island) with grey veins on it.
It has 2.20m length, 1,15m width and 1,02m high. The short face of the mortar board at the north left is broken and missing. Both four faces of the sarcophagus were brought from the manufacturing place at Marmara Island as roughly made and were put into the grave without the details composed on it. Ornaments of the long front face on the board were made up of three girlands. There were no details of girlands and were embroidered as straight curved reliefs. The joinnings and bands were roughly left as the masses of rectangles. Bunhes of grapes hang down from middle of girlands. On the top hole of middle girlands there is roughly left tabula ansata. There are circled reliefs in the holes of girlands alongside.

The long face at the backside also has similar orders and characteristics with ornaments of the long front face. Same characteristics were repeated in ornaments over the right (south) short face of the board witch remained undamaged. It has a triangle acrotered cover which was decorated roughly Translation of the inscription written on two block of the podiums is: Hoplon, the Olymposian and the son of Hoplon, son of Diotimos construted this grave for his relatives (mother and father), himself, nephew Gagatis and his wife Melitine from Olympos who is the daughter of Archepolis, son of Eukles also called as Aristonoe and doughter (of Gagatis) Melitine.

If any other person puts a dead body (inside the grave), he will be accused of opening the grave of others and who proves (this situation) will take 1.000 Denar from my wealth and the body which was put inside will be thrown out”: As it can be seen, the said sarcophagus was constructed by Hopolo for family us as he was from one of the foremost families in the city.

The City Walls

	The City Walls The polygonal city walls were built in about 4 B.C. to protect the Hellenistic settlement that was thought to exist on the skits of Mt.Musa in the Southern city.
This polygonal wall, which stretches along the rocky hills of Mt. Musa by heading south over the cliff where Alkestis sarcophagus was situated, borders the Hellenistic settlement from the north and west.

The wall was built with polygonal stone laying technique. The static analysis of the wall, which was built without using any mortar, clamp or other binding material, has been obtained through the compression of stones with more than four facts.