An unusual Roman monument
The area during the Ottoman period was called Dikili Tash which in Turkish means standing stone. The name came from the peculiar funerary monument of the Roman period. It was built in the 1st century AD, next to the Via Egnatia, in honour of the Roman officer Caius Vibius Quartus, as we know from the engraved inscription. According to a 19th century traveller, the deterioration of the inscription and the monument is due to the belief that if new mothers scratched the marble and consumed the powder they would have milk for breastfeeding.
On the low hill near the monument an important Neolithic settlement has been discovered.
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