Lyrbe

Lyrbe is an ancient city in the Taurus mountains near Manavgat, Antalya Province, Turkey, whose name derives from the Luwian language suggesting very early origins. Its agora, considered the best preserved in Pamphylia, is a rectangular plaza surrounded by Doric and Ionic colonnaded galleries with six gates, originally built in the 2nd century BC and rebuilt twice in Roman and late antique periods. The ruins also include baths, temples, cisterns, a necropolis, and a Byzantine chapel. Two notable mosaics depicting the Seven Sages of Greece and Orpheus are now in the Antalya Archaeological Museum. Excavations were conducted from 1972 to 1979 by Professor Jale Inan.