Antiphellos Ancient City

Antiphellos, known as Habesos or Habesa in the Lycian language, is one of the ancient settlements of the Lycian Region. The city, which took the name Antiphellos later, means "the place opposite the rocky ground", "across Phellos". It is one of the member cities of the Lycian Union, and it is known that it is the port of the city of Phellos in the north and has been living since the 6th century BC. In the Hellenistic Period, on the other hand, commercial ventures gain importance and Antiphellos develops faster in response to the decline of Phellos, the main city, and becomes an important port city during the Roman Empire.

Antiphellos has been known as a commercial city since the middle of the 2nd century BC, even though it was limited to a single vote in the Lycian Union, both with its own coins and with the coins it issued on behalf of the union. Remains of the ancient city in Kas interior continue around the district and along the peninsula extending in the east-west direction. Remains of Hellenistic walls with rectangular stonework can be seen in the part where the peninsula begins and on the face facing Meis Island. In the southeast of the church, which has been converted into a mosque today, where the city walls face the harbor, there are the remains of a temple with an unknown temenos. The temeno of the temple was made in rectogonal masonry with bossage. The original building was built in the 1st century BC, the later addition was AD. It is dated to the 3rd century.

The better preserved structure in Antiphellos than the temple is the theater. The theater on the southern skirt of the Acropolis hill leans against the hillside and faces the sea with its twenty-six cavea. Seating rows are divided into three parts by four vertical stairs, there are no diazomas. The theater, which is thought to be a Hellenistic Age work, does not have a fixed stone skene building. To the northeast of the theater is the burial chamber with twenty-four female reliefs carved into the bedrock. It is dated to the 4th century BC from the shape of the women and the facade decorations. In the bazaar, there are well-preserved carriage protrusions in the form of a lion's head with a hyposorion, which has become the symbol of Kaş, and a gothic pediment tomb dating to the 4th century BC with its Lycian inscription. There are many Gothic style or Lycian inscription rock tombs on the hill bordering today's Kaş from the northeast. The most interesting of these is the tomb with a Lycian inscription on the second floor, which was built in the form of a Gothic arch. Centuries later, when the tomb was reused by a woman named Claudia Recepta, a Latin inscription was added. Apart from these, the Lycian type sarcophagi made in later periods in the water around the harbor and close to the shore are other surviving monuments of the city.