Nagidos

Nagidos (Ancient Greek: Νάγιδος) was an ancient city of Cilicia near modern Bozyazı, at the mouth of the Sini Cay (Bozyazı Dere), ca. 20 km east of Anamur in Mersin Province in south Turkey. The site was discovered by Rudolf Heberdey and Adolf Wilhelm. In the 1930s a Swedish expedition carried out explorations. In 1986 the museum of Anamur discovered 24 graves, the oldest dating back to the fifth century BC. Nagidos, like Kelenderis, was a colony of Samos. In 333 it was conquered by Alexander the Great.

From the end of the fifth century BC, the town minted staters that had both Greek and Aramaic inscriptions, one of which bears the name of the Persian satrap Pharnabazus^{[disambiguation needed ]}. The Nagidos mint used a grape cluster as a symbol on the reverse.^[1]

The small island of Nagidoussa is opposite Nagidos; on it are the ruins of an Ottoman fortress.

References

1. ^ American Numismatic Society, Museum Notes 31 (1986), p. 13.

Literature

• C. P. Jones/J. Russell, "Two New Inscriptions from Nagidos in Cilicia." Phoenix 47/ 4, 1993, 293-304.
• R. Heberdey/A. Wilhelm, Reisen in Kilikien 1891-1892 (Wien 1896, Denkschriften Wien 44/6), 158-159.
• W. Ruge, "Nagidos." RE 16.1, 1935, 1582-83.
• Ph. Lederer, "Die Staterprägung der Stadt Nagidos." Zeitschrift für Numismatik 41, 1931, 153-276.