ABSTRACT
The coast of Lycia, at its southernmost point, is speckled with small towns and villages. In antiquity, these tiny communities survived through fishing, the production of olive oil, and as important way stations in shipping from the western Mediterranean to the Levant, Egypt, and back.1 Some of these marginal communities developed tourism. Sura, for example, had a famous ichthyomantic oracle in which earnest questioners might address their petitions to a prophetic (since sacred used twice) fish whose mode of devouring a sacred lamb kebab was then interpreted by oracular staff.2 The town of Aperlae found a more durable mode of subsistence, indeed, a road to prosperity.
