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ANATOLIAN CIVILIZATIONS:10x19 antik kentler 8/1/11 10:51 AM Sayfa 140 �� Plan of Priene 1.Temple of Athena 2.Southern Stoa of Temple of Athena 3.Agora 4.Sacred stoa 5.Market and fish agora 6.Temenos of Zeus Olympios 7.Bouleuterion 8.Prytaneion 9.Theater 10.Sacred precinct of Demeter 11.Archbishop’s church 12.Upper gymnasion 13.Temenos of the Egyptian Gods 14.Lower gymnasion 15.Stadion 16.North-East gateway 17.East gateway 18. Largest house 19. West gateway 20. Temenos of Kybele 21.House of Alexander the Great gymnasion. Above the gymnasion on the slope of the acropolis is the Temple of Demeter and Kore. The temple is located at the western end of the sanctuary dedicated to Demeter measuring 40.5 by 17.55 m.. The stone bench inside the shrine is where votive offerings were placed. The Temple of Athena is located in the most prominent place of Priene. It was built by Pytheos, a famous architect of the day. (He also was responsible for the Maussolleion at Halicarnassos); The temple is of the Ionic order having a 6x11 columned peripteros, some of which have been re-erected. A work of the 4 th century BC, it was the eastern part of this temple that Alexander had completed. An inscription on a marble block now in the British Museum states that ‘King Alexander presented the temple to Athena Polias’. The western half of the temple appears to have been completed much later in the 2 nd century BC when the cult statue and altar were renovated. The stylobate of the temple's altar measured 37.20 by 19.5 m. but all that remains of it today is the foundation. It was decorated with depictions of gods and giants done in high relief, some of which are now in the ‹stanbul Archaeological Museum. During the reign of the ��
ANATOLIAN CIVILIZATIONS:10x19 antik kentler 8/1/11 10:51 AM Sayfa Priene. Bouleuterion or Council Chamber, about 150 BC. Roman emperor Augustus, that emperor was also worshipped here in this temple along with Athena. A propylon was added to the eastern side of the temple and in the second half of the 2 nd century BC, a stoa was built in the course of the work going on at the temple. This stoa consists of a row of Doric-order columns and a nave and measures 78.4 m. in length. The back of it adjoins the temple while the front looks out over the plain of the Menderes River. Below it is a seven meter high terrace wall and a 32column stoa that served as a promenade for the inhabitants of Priene. East of the stoa below the Temple of Athena is the Sacred Stoa. According to an inscription, it was built in 130 BC by King Ararathes VI of Cappadocia. The Sacred Stoa was approached by a flight of six steps. Measuring 6.47 m. in width, this was another promenade. The double-nave structure had four Doric columns on the front and was covered over by a roof. At the end of the Sacred Stoa was the Prytaneion, the building in which the representatives of the municipal (state) council met. It was built in the 2 nd century BC. It is also where the eternal sacred flame was kept. Beside it is the bouleuterion, which could accommodate 640. In the center was an altar and the seats were arranged around the walls. Measuring 20 by 21 m., the building was originally covered with a wooden roof. Three sides of the structure were enclosed while the front was open. Before the Sacred Stoa is an agora whose eastern extremity is terminated by the temenos of the Temple of Zeus. Measuring 75.63 by 35.40 m., the agora was enclosed on 141
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