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Attuda, at the place now called Hisarköy, lies within the district of Sarayköy, about seventeen kilometres to its south-west. In antiquity it was a frontier city between Caria and Phrygia, and the shortest road joining Tripolis and Laodicea in the Çürüksu valley to Aphrodisias ran through it.
Nothing certain is known about its founding, but it is thought to be contemporary with the cities of the Lycus valley and to have been founded in the Hellenistic period. It played an important part in the commercial, economic and artistic exchange between those cities and Aphrodisias.
The ancient sources write that there was a cult of Men at Attuda, that a temple was built and the god worshipped there, and that the temple held a statue of Men on horseback. They also record statues of Zeus, Apollo, Dionysus and Asclepius, and a cult of Artemis Anaitis.
The city struck coins both before and during the imperial period.
