Kasara
Town in Caria, near the tip of the Loryma peninsula SW of Marmaris. Kasara was (at least after 408 B.C.) a Rhodian deme which included Loryma and much of the S end of the peninsula. Whether it also included the island of Syme is more doubtful. As a deme it was attached to the city of Kamiros, not Lindos.
The site occupies a low hill in a valley running across the peninsula. The remains consist merely of a stretch of circuit wall in bossed ashlar, and two specimens of the curious stepped pyramidal bases which appear to be found exclusively in the immediate neighborhood; their purpose remains uncertain.
BIBLIOGRAPHYI. T. Bent, JHS 9 (1888) 82-83; 10 (1889) 46ff; P. M. Fraser & G. E. Bean, Rhodian Peraea (1954) 59, 140; G. P. Caratelli, Studi Classicie Orientali 6 (1957) 72f (attachment to Kamiros); I. M. Cook, JHS 81 (1961) 60.
G. E. BEAN