Kız Ada Apollo Daphnousios Kutsal Alanı

<p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><i>A fragment of a votive slab dedicated to the god Apollo was found during the&nbsp;</i><i>2023 season of the archaeological excavations at Kız Island in Apollonia a.R. The&nbsp;</i><i>depiction of Apollo on the stele bears a close resemblance to the votive tablets found&nbsp;</i><i>in 1991 at the site called Gavurkaya in the Akçapınar neighborhood on the southeastern&nbsp;</i><i>shore of Uluabat Lake, south of the city of Apollonia a.R. The inscriptions&nbsp;</i><i>on the fully preserved Akçapınar votive plaques indicate that the offering was made&nbsp;</i><i>for Apollo Daphnousios. The honouring stele among the finds points to a settlement&nbsp;</i><i>named Daphnous Katoikia. The article discusses the location of the cult site of Apollo&nbsp;</i><i>Daphnousios and the Daphnous Katoikia according to the finds from Kız Island.&nbsp;</i><i>According to the similarity between the Akçapınar and Kız Island votive reliefs, the&nbsp;</i><i>sanctuary of Apollo should be localized to Kız Island, whereas the Daphnous Katoikia&nbsp;</i><i>should be located to the Gavurkaya in the Akçapınar neighborhoods. It is emphasized&nbsp;</i><i>that the Seleucids were interested in the city of Apollonia a.R. because of Apollo’s&nbsp;</i><i>cult, while the Daphnous Katoikia was a garrison settlement established against the&nbsp;</i><i>Kingdom of Bithynia not far from the cult area.</i>