Pednelissus archaeological site in Anatolia

Some stones seem to have signs of tubular drilling, and then cutting of their sides (but not the fact that there was tubular drilling). A very strange and rare ancient way of processing stone blocks Pednelissus or Petnelissus (both forms are used in ancient writings and on the city s coins, the latter form alone appearing in its later coins) (Greek: Πεδνηλισσός) was a city on the border between Pamphylia and Pisidia in Asia Minor. Writing in about AD 530, Hierocles placed it in the later Roman province of Pamphylia Secunda, a reckoning accepted also in the Catholic Church s list of titular sees, which thus makes Perge its metropolitan Strabo (64, 63 BC c. AD 24) placed it in Pisidia and said that it was north of Aspendus. It was near the Eurymedon River, on the southwestern slope of Mount Taurus, overlooking the Pamphylian plain. The site of the city does not appear to have been identified with certainty; but it is ge br, br,