Kuştur Mevkiinde yer alan antik kentin yerleşiminin Kuştur Tatil Köyü altında kaldığı tahmin edilmektedir. Pygela Plajı da denen Kuştur Plajı’nda liman kalıntıları görülebilmektedir. Tepede akropol ve sur duvarları kısmen görünebilmektedir.

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Pygela
Πύγελα or Φύγελα
Coins issued by Pygela ca. 350-300 BC
Admiralty Chart No 1546 Samos Strait to Mandelyah Gulf, Published 1898. The ruins of Pygela are noted near the top of the chart.
RegionIonia
Coordinates37°51′44″N 27°15′49″E / 37.862209°N 27.263729°E / 37.862209; 27.263729
TypeDifferent at different periods
Part ofMunicipal unit of Melia
Municipal unit of Samos
Stand-alone polis
Polis with sympoliteia (double citizenship) with Miletos
Municipal unit of Ephesos
For the town of ancient Lycia, see Pygela (Lycia).

Pygela (Ancient Greek: Πύγελα) or Phygela (Φύγελα)[1] was a small town of ancient Ionia, on the coast of the Caystrian Bay, a little to the south of Ephesus. It is located near Kuşadası, Asiatic Turkey.[2][3] The ruins are right down on Pygela Plaji, "Pygela Beach." They are obviously partly drowned.

According to Greek mythology, it was said to have been founded by Agamemnon, and to have been peopled with the remnants of his army; it contained a temple of Artemis Munychia.[4][5][6][7][8][9] Dioscorides commends the wine of this town.[10] It was a polis (city-state) and a member of the Delian League.[11] Silver and bronze coins dated to the 4th century BCE bearing the legends «ΦΥΓΑΛΕΩΝ» or «ΦΥΓ» are attributed to the town.[11]

  1. ^ Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Pygela
  2. ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 61, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
  3. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  4. ^ Xenophon. Hellenica. Vol. 1.2.2.
  5. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. xiv. p.639. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  6. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v. Πύγελα.
  7. ^ Harpocrat. s.v. Πύγελα; Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 5.31.
  8. ^ Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax p. 37; Pomponius Mela. De situ orbis. Vol. 1.17.
  9. ^ Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 37.1.
  10. ^ Dioscorides, De Materia Medica 5.12
  11. ^ a b Rubinstein, Lene (2004). "Ionia". In Mogens Herman Hansen; Thomas Heine Nielsen (eds.). An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 1094. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.

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