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With six rock-cut tombs of Lycian type, the region south of the city of Kibyra (in the southern part of Burdur province) is the northernmost area of their distribution. Five of these are published here for the first time. Comparison with tombs in Lycia proper suggests a date in the fourth century BC. On the basis of this date and of similar tombs found in the region of Oinoanda and in the Elmalı plain, it is argued that the existence of this type of rock-cut tomb in what was part of ancient Milyas testifies to the political and cultural expansion of Lycia under ‘king’ Perikle in the 370s BC.

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The city of Laodikeia Kombusta (Laodikeia Katakekaumene) was situated on the border of Phrygia and Lykaonia on an important route from the west coast of Asia Minor to the Euphrates via Dorylaion. Keywords: Greek history; Roman history

Kios was a Greek colonial city in northwestern Asia Minor (modern Gemlik). It was founded, according to Greek historians, in 626/5 bce by colonists from Miletos in what was then Mysia; local and literary myths, however, attributed the foundation to Herakles (or Polyphemos) when he accompanied the Argonauts. Keywords: To Come

Laodikeia by the Lykos (a tributary of the Maeander) was a city in southern Phrygia, sometimes counted in Caria, near modern Denizli. Keywords: archaeology; Egyptian history; ancient Greece

This chapter examines Thracian personal names in military settlements in the Hellenistic region of Bithynia. It analyses the distribution of Thracian names on monuments and inscriptions in the vicinity of Nikaia, Prusa, Kios, and Nikomedeia. The findings suggest that, as a kingdom, Bithynia was dominated by an elite of Thracian descent and that these families lived on estates in the countryside. As a result there is no evidence for these families from Bithynian cities.

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