This project intends to produce an interdisciplinary study that will be fundamental for the understanding of the history and archaeology of the frontier region between Phrygia and Lydia, which is as yet practically unstudied.  The principal object of the study is the city and royal residence of Kelainai/Apamea Kibotos, modern Dinar (Turkey).  ...... read more

 

Kelainai / Apameia Kibôtos and its region: a royal residence in Phrygia.

The town of Kelainai, located near the source of the Meander river, was one of the residences of the Achaemenid and Seleucid kings and the wealthiest and most important city of Phrygia.

KELAINAI - APAMEIA KIBOTOS