TRALLES (mod. Giizel Hisser)  , an ancient town of Caria, Asia Minor, situated on the Eudon, a tributary of the Maeander . It was reputed an Argive and Thracian colony, and was long under Persian rule, of which we hear in the history of Dercyllidas' raid from Ephesus in 397 B.C . Fortified and increased by the Seleucids and Pergamenians, who renamed it successively Seleucia and Antiochia, it passed to Rome in 133 . Though satirized in a famous line (Juv . Sal. iii . 70) as a remote provincial place, it had many wealthy inhabitants in the Roman period and, to judge by objects discovered there, contained many notable works of art . Two of the best marble heads in the Constantinople museum came from Tralles; and both in the excavations conducted for that museum by Edhem Bey (1904), and by chance discoveries, .fine-art products have come to light on the site . Rebuilt by Andronicus II. about 128o, it was superseded a few years later, after the Seljuk conquest, by a new town, founded by the amir Aidin in a lower situation (see AIDIN) . (D . G .