Eurymedon Bridge (Selge)

Eurymedon Bridge (Selge)
The Roman bridge over the Eurymedon valley
Coordinates	37°11′31″N 31°10′52″E / 37.191973°N 31.181033°E / 37.191973; 31.181033
Crosses	Eurymedon (Köprüçay)
Locale	Near Selge, Pisidia, Turkey
Official name	Oluk Köprü
Characteristics
Design	Arch bridge
Material	Stone
Total length	14 m
Width	3.5 m
Longest span	7 m
History
Construction end	2nd century AD
Location

The Eurymedon Bridge (Turkish: Oluk Köprü) is a Roman bridge over the river Eurymedon (modern Köprüçay River) near Selge in Pisidia in southern Turkey.^[1] It is part of the road winding up from the coastal region Pamphylia to the Pisidian hinterland.^[1] Located 5 km north of the village Beşkonak in a sparsely settled area, the bridge crosses the Eurymedon high above the valley bottom.^[1]

The excellently preserved structure is 14 m long and 3.5 m wide (with a roadway of 2.5 m).^[1] The clear span of its single arch is c. 7 m, the thickness of its voussoirs, which were set without the use of mortar, 60 cm.^[1] The building technique and the sturdy stonework point to a construction date in the 2nd century AD, a time when Selge was flourishing.^[2]

Forty-two km downstream at Aspendos, the Eurymedon is crossed by another extant old bridge.^[3]

• List of Roman bridges
• Roman architecture
• Roman engineering

• Bean, George E. (1968), Turkey's Southern Shore. An Archaeological Guide, London, p. 139{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Galliazzo, Vittorio (1994), I ponti romani. Catalogo generale, vol. 2, Treviso: Edizioni Canova, pp. 409–410 (No. 856), ISBN 88-85066-66-6
• O’Connor, Colin (1993), Roman Bridges, Cambridge University Press, p. 126 (E25), ISBN 0-521-39326-4

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