@article{Χανιώτης_1997, title={Το χρονικό της ανακάλυψης μιας ελληνιστικής πόλης στην Καρία (Bucakkoy, Συνέτα)}, volume={12}, url={https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/deltiokms/article/view/2453}, DOI={10.12681/deltiokms.72}, abstractNote={<p>In the winter of 1995, an inscribed stele found near the village of Bucakköy in<br />Karia was transported to the Aphrodisias Museum. The stele is dedicated to Zeus<br />Synetenos by a priest and 121 other men (late 3rd or early 2nd cent. B.C.). The<br />epithet Synetenos belongs to a widespread type of Anatolian divine epithets,<br />which usually derive from place names. The village of Bucakköy has been known<br />as the possible site of a smal independent polis ever since the discovery of an<br />honorific inscription, built into the wall of the village mosque, in 1893. K.<br />Buresch (1895), J.G.C. Anderson (1897), and Jeanne and Louis Robert (1946)<br />recorded the presence of an ancient cemetery, a late Roman site, two inscriptions,<br />and a relief representation of a mother goddess, but were unable to find<br />evidence for the exact location or the name of the city. In light of the new<br />epigraphic find C. Ratté, L. Bier, and A. Chaniotis undertook an investigation,<br />which offered answers to both questions. A fragmentary inscription (3rd/2nd<br />cent.) was found built in the wall of a house in Bucakköy. It contains the last 9<br />lines of an honorific decree; in the hortatory formula, where one expects the<br />name of the community, we find a word beginning with the letters SY, obviously<br />the ethnic name Synetenoi. This confirms the assumption that the city’s name<br />was Syneta (cf. other indigenous names, such as Anineta, Azita, etc.). The city<br />itself was discovered at the hilltop site of Tola§ Tepe, where the dedicatory inscription<br />was found. This polis, in the eastern end of the Maeander valley and at the<br />border of Phrygia and Karia, may have been founded by the Seleucids (late 3rd<br />cent.) or the Attalids (early 2nd cent.). The rich onomastic material indicates that<br />its population consisted of settlers from the coastal cities of Ionia. It is an<br />attractive assumption - in the light of the small size of the settlement, the fact that<br />the dedicatory inscription does not give any information about the identity of the<br />122 dedicators, and the fact that only a few men seem to have family relations<br />with one another - that these men were the first settlers.</p>}, journal={Δελτίο Κέντρου Μικρασιατικών Σπουδών}, author={Χανιώτης Άγγελος}, year={1997}, month={Ιανουαρίου}, pages={13–29} }