Lyrbe

Lyrbe (spelled Lyrba in the 1910 Catholic Encyclopedia; Ancient Greek: Λύρβη) was a city and episcopal see in the Roman province of Pamphylia Prima and is now a titular see.[1]

The Agora of Lyrbe

History

It is only known by its coins and the mention made of it by Dionysius Periegetes,[2] Ptolemy,[3] and Hierocles.[4][5] Dionysius places the town in Pisidia, while William Smith equates Lyrbe with the Lyrope (Λυρόπη), mentioned by Ptolemy and placed by the ancient geographer in Cilicia Trachaea.[6]

It is identified with modern Asarkale,[1] Bucakşeyhler,[7] or Şıhlar.[8]

The Notitiae episcopatuum mention Lyrba as an episcopal see, suffragan of the archbishopric of Side, up to the 12th and 13th centuries. Two of its bishops are known: Caius, who attend the First Council of Constantinople in 381, and Taurianus at the First Council of Ephesus in 431 (Le Quien, Oriens christianus, I, 1009); Zeuxius was not Bishop of Lyrba, as Le Quien states, but of Syedra.[5]

See also

• Seleucia (Pamphylia)
• Extensive series of pictures of the remains of Lyrbe

References

1. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 918
2. Dionysius Periegetes 858,
3. Ptolemy. The Geography. 5.5.5.
4. Hierocles. Synecdemus. p. 682.
5. Sophrone Pétridès, "Lyrba" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1910)
6. Ptolemy. The Geography. 5.5.9.
7. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
8. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 65, and directory notes accompanying.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Lyrbe". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.