1. Stephanus Byzantius 158.10, see «Βάργασα». 2. Claudius Ptolemaeus, Geographia 5.2.19. Ptolemaeus mentions the city as Bargaza but this was considered to be an alteration of the city’s ancient name by the author, since the–asa ending is particularly common in the place names of Caria. 3. RE 5 (1897), column 14, see Bargasa ( L. Bürchner). 4. Strabo 14.2.15 5. Blümel, W., “Einheimische Ortsnamen in Karien”, Epigraphica Anatolica 30 (1998), p. 166; Zgusta, L., Kleinasiatische Ortsnamen (Heidelberg 1984), p.116. 6. Buresch, K., “Zur Lydischen Epigraphik und Geographie”, AM 19 (1894), p. 103. 7. For the coins of the city see BMC Caria and Islands p. xlii, 70; Head B.V., Historia Numorum (Oxford 1911), p. 612; Marchese, R. T., The Lower Maeander Flood Plain: A Regional Settlement Study, Part 1 (BAR 292, Oxford 1986), p. 267. 8. Robert, L. – Robert, J., La Carie II: Le Plateau de Tabai et ses Environs (Paris 1954), p. 273, 336 ; Robert, L., A travers l’Asie Mireure: Poètes et Prosateurs, Monnaies, Grecques voyageurs et Géographie (Bibliothèque des Écoles Francaises d’Athènes et de Rome 239, 1, Paris 1980), p.362-3752 ; PECS, p. 143, see Bargasa (G.E. Bean). 9. Marchese, R.T., The Lower Maeander Flood Plain: A Regional Settlement Study Part 1 (BAR 292, Oxford 1986), p. 68, 267, 310; Paton, W. R., “Sites in E. Karia and S. Lydia” JHS 20 (1900), p. 60-61. 10. Marchese, R.T., The Historical Archaeology of Northern Caria (BAR 536, Oxford 1989), p.149. |