Hygassos

Hygassos was a town of the Rhodian Peraea in ancient Caria, that was inhabited in the Hellenistic period.[1] The name does not appear in inscriptions, but the demonym (Ancient Greek: Ὑγασσέως) occurs frequently in ancient epigraphy.[2]

Its site is located on Losta Bay, Bozburun Peninsula, Asiatic Turkey.[1][3]

References
  1. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 65, and directory notes accompanying.
  2. see, e.g., AD 23 B2 (1968) 448,2; MDAI(A) 30 (1905) 149,8.
  3. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.


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