Monete dagli scavi di Elaiussa Sebaste (Cilicia Tracheia)
Bronze coins dated to the 1st cent. BC represent the earlier testimony of the existence of Elaiussa, in Rough Cilicia, quoted in literary sources only in the 1st cent. AD. Byzantine sources mention Elaiussa as a bishop’s siege in the middle of the 5th cent. AD, and as an Armenian episcopate in the XIVth cent.
The city lays on a promontory, now tied to the coast, but originally an Island, and on the mainland, and the excavations