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  • Water barrel vaulted arched cistern dating from the Roman period, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The rectangular structure is built of mortared rubble and has sixteen arched niches on its front façade looking north and tow on its west side.
    Turkey_Teos_074.jpg
  • The Hellenistic Bouleuterion – council house - located adjacent the Agora, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Bouleuterion had the capacity to seat 850 people and it main purpose was for political meetings, however an inscription dated to 200 BCE shows that musical and grammar performances took place there as well.
    Turkey_Teos_053.jpg
  • The Hellenistic Bouleuterion – council house - located adjacent the Agora, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Bouleuterion had the capacity to seat 850 people and it main purpose was for political meetings, however an inscription dated to 200 BCE shows that musical and grammar performances took place there as well.
    Turkey_Teos_052.jpg
  • The Greek Theatre is located on the south eastern slopes of the Acropolis, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. Unfortunately a large amount of the stones of the seats were removed during the Ottoman period for the construction of a mediaeval castle.
    Turkey_Teos_044.jpg
  • The Hellenistic Bouleuterion – council house - located adjacent the Agora, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Bouleuterion had the capacity to seat 850 people and it main purpose was for political meetings, however an inscription dated to 200 BCE shows that musical and grammar performances took place there as well.
    Turkey_Teos_058.jpg
  • Water barrel vaulted arched cistern dating from the Roman period, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The rectangular structure is built of mortared rubble and has sixteen arched niches on its front façade looking north and tow on its west side.
    Turkey_Teos_078.jpg
  • Water barrel vaulted arched cistern dating from the Roman period, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The rectangular structure is built of mortared rubble and has sixteen arched niches on its front façade looking north and tow on its west side.
    Turkey_Teos_073.jpg
  • The Hellenistic Bouleuterion – council house - located adjacent the Agora, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Bouleuterion had the capacity to seat 850 people and it main purpose was for political meetings, however an inscription dated to 200 BCE shows that musical and grammar performances took place there as well.
    Turkey_Teos_066.jpg
  • The Hellenistic Bouleuterion – council house - located adjacent the Agora, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Bouleuterion had the capacity to seat 850 people and it main purpose was for political meetings, however an inscription dated to 200 BCE shows that musical and grammar performances took place there as well.
    Turkey_Teos_057.jpg
  • The Hellenistic Bouleuterion – council house - located adjacent the Agora, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Bouleuterion had the capacity to seat 850 people and it main purpose was for political meetings, however an inscription dated to 200 BCE shows that musical and grammar performances took place there as well.
    Turkey_Teos_056.jpg
  • Hellenistic Temple of Dionysus, designed in 220-205 BCE by the architect Hermogenes of Priene, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Temple of Dionysus is of Ionic orders and has a regular tripartite plan with a trapezoidal temenos. The Temenos was surrounded by four stoas: two Doric (north and south) and two Ionic (east and west). The plan is eustylos peripteral with six columns on a shorter side and eleven on the longer.
    Turkey_Teos_021.jpg
  • Hellenistic Temple of Dionysus, designed in 220-205 BCE by the architect Hermogenes of Priene, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Temple of Dionysus is of Ionic orders and has a regular tripartite plan with a trapezoidal temenos. The Temenos was surrounded by four stoas: two Doric (north and south) and two Ionic (east and west). The plan is eustylos peripteral with six columns on a shorter side and eleven on the longer.
    Turkey_Teos_018.jpg
  • Hellenistic Temple of Dionysus, designed in 220-205 BCE by the architect Hermogenes of Priene, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Temple of Dionysus is of Ionic orders and has a regular tripartite plan with a trapezoidal temenos. The Temenos was surrounded by four stoas: two Doric (north and south) and two Ionic (east and west). The plan is eustylos peripteral with six columns on a shorter side and eleven on the longer.
    Turkey_Teos_015.jpg
  • Hellenistic Temple of Dionysus, designed in 220-205 BCE by the architect Hermogenes of Priene, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Temple of Dionysus is of Ionic orders and has a regular tripartite plan with a trapezoidal temenos. The Temenos was surrounded by four stoas: two Doric (north and south) and two Ionic (east and west). The plan is eustylos peripteral with six columns on a shorter side and eleven on the longer.
    Turkey_Teos_024.jpg
  • Hellenistic Temple of Dionysus, designed in 220-205 BCE by the architect Hermogenes of Priene, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Temple of Dionysus is of Ionic orders and has a regular tripartite plan with a trapezoidal temenos. The Temenos was surrounded by four stoas: two Doric (north and south) and two Ionic (east and west). The plan is eustylos peripteral with six columns on a shorter side and eleven on the longer.
    Turkey_Teos_014.jpg
  • Water barrel vaulted arched cistern dating from the Roman period, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The rectangular structure is built of mortared rubble and has sixteen arched niches on its front façade looking north and tow on its west side.
    Turkey_Teos_077.jpg
  • The Hellenistic Bouleuterion – council house - located adjacent the Agora, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Bouleuterion had the capacity to seat 850 people and it main purpose was for political meetings, however an inscription dated to 200 BCE shows that musical and grammar performances took place there as well.
    Turkey_Teos_065.jpg
  • Section of the stage building of the Greek Theatre, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The theatre is located on the south eastern slopes of the Acropolis. Unfortunately, a large amount of the stones of the seats were removed during the Ottoman period for the construction of a mediaeval castle.
    Turkey_Teos_050.jpg
  • The Greek Theatre is located on the south eastern slopes of the Acropolis, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. Unfortunately a large amount of the stones of the seats were removed during the Ottoman period for the construction of a mediaeval castle.
    Turkey_Teos_046.jpg
  • View on Acropolis with the ruins of Archaic temple probably dedicated to Zeus Kapitolios, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey.  The temple has a east-west axis and measures 7.30metres wides by 37.40 metres long.
    Turkey_Teos_028.jpg
  • Hellenistic Temple of Dionysus, designed in 220-205 BCE by the architect Hermogenes of Priene, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Temple of Dionysus is of Ionic orders and has a regular tripartite plan with a trapezoidal temenos. The Temenos was surrounded by four stoas: two Doric (north and south) and two Ionic (east and west). The plan is eustylos peripteral with six columns on a shorter side and eleven on the longer.
    Turkey_Teos_025.jpg
  • Turkey_Teos_007.jpg
  • The Greek Theatre is located on the south eastern slopes of the Acropolis, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. Unfortunately a large amount of the stones of the seats were removed during the Ottoman period for the construction of a mediaeval castle.
    Turkey_Teos_003.jpg
  • Foundations of a Hellenistic Ionic peripteral Temple located in the Agora, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. Dating from around the 2nd century BCE, the temple comprised of a tripartite division of Pronaos, naos and opisthodomos and measures 18.40 metres long side by 8.10 metres short side. The deity it was dedicated to is unknown.
    Turkey_Teos_069.jpg
  • West section of the four-kilometre-long Hellenistic city walls which encircled an area of sixty five hectares, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey.
    Turkey_Teos_009.jpg
  • West section of the four-kilometre-long Hellenistic city walls which encircled an area of sixty five hectares, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey.
    Turkey_Teos_008.jpg
  • The Greek Theatre is located on the south eastern slopes of the Acropolis, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. Unfortunately a large amount of the stones of the seats were removed during the Ottoman period for the construction of a mediaeval castle.
    Turkey_Teos_036.jpg
  • The Hellenistic Bouleuterion – council house - located adjacent the Agora, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Bouleuterion had the capacity to seat 850 people and it main purpose was for political meetings, however an inscription dated to 200 BCE shows that musical and grammar performances took place there as well.
    Turkey_Teos_067.jpg
  • The Hellenistic Bouleuterion – council house - located adjacent the Agora, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Bouleuterion had the capacity to seat 850 people and it main purpose was for political meetings, however an inscription dated to 200 BCE shows that musical and grammar performances took place there as well.
    Turkey_Teos_055.jpg
  • The Greek Theatre is located on the south eastern slopes of the Acropolis, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. Unfortunately a large amount of the stones of the seats were removed during the Ottoman period for the construction of a mediaeval castle.
    Turkey_Teos_040.jpg
  • The Acropolis provides commanding and panoramic views, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey.
    Turkey_Teos_034.jpg
  • View on Acropolis with the ruins of the Altar for the adjacent Temple, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Archaic temple was probably dedicated to Zeus Kapitolios.
    Turkey_Teos_031.jpg
  • Hellenistic Temple of Dionysus, designed in 220-205 BCE by the architect Hermogenes of Priene, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Temple of Dionysus is of Ionic orders and has a regular tripartite plan with a trapezoidal temenos. The Temenos was surrounded by four stoas: two Doric (north and south) and two Ionic (east and west). The plan is eustylos peripteral with six columns on a shorter side and eleven on the longer.
    Turkey_Teos_020.jpg
  • Water barrel vaulted arched cistern dating from the Roman period, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The rectangular structure is built of mortared rubble and has sixteen arched niches on its front façade looking north and tow on its west side.
    Turkey_Teos_005.jpg
  • The Hellenistic Bouleuterion – council house - located adjacent the Agora, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Bouleuterion had the capacity to seat 850 people and it main purpose was for political meetings, however an inscription dated to 200 BCE shows that musical and grammar performances took place there as well.
    Turkey_Teos_004.jpg
  • The broad and twisted trunk of an ancient and glorious Olive tree located in the Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. Olive trees are renowned for their hardiness and are drought-, disease- and fire-resistant. The Ancient Greeks revered the Olive tree and its fruit and smeared olive oil on their bodies and hair as a matter of grooming and good health. Olive oil was used to anoint kings and athletes in ancient Greece. It was burnt in the sacred lamps of temples and was the "eternal flame" of the original Olympic games. Victors in these games were crowned with its leaves.
    Turkey_Teos_071.jpg
  • Foundations of a Hellenistic Ionic peripteral Temple located in the Agora, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. Dating from around the 2nd century BCE, the temple comprised of a tripartite division of Pronaos, naos and opisthodomos and measures 18.40 metres long side by 8.10 metres short side. The deity it was dedicated to is unknown.
    Turkey_Teos_070.jpg
  • Foundations of a Hellenistic Ionic peripteral Temple located in the Agora, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. Dating from around the 2nd century BCE, the temple comprised of a tripartite division of Pronaos, naos and opisthodomos and measures 18.40 metres long side by 8.10 metres short side. The deity it was dedicated to is unknown.
    Turkey_Teos_068.jpg
  • The Hellenistic Bouleuterion – council house - located adjacent the Agora, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Bouleuterion had the capacity to seat 850 people and it main purpose was for political meetings, however an inscription dated to 200 BCE shows that musical and grammar performances took place there as well.
    Turkey_Teos_060.jpg
  • The vaulted tunnel under the cavea of the Greek Theatre and, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The theatre is located on the south eastern slopes of the Acropolis. Unfortunately, a large amount of the stones of the seats were removed during the Ottoman period for the construction of a mediaeval castle.
    Turkey_Teos_051.jpg
  • The Greek Theatre is located on the south eastern slopes of the Acropolis, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. Unfortunately a large amount of the stones of the seats were removed during the Ottoman period for the construction of a mediaeval castle.
    Turkey_Teos_045.jpg
  • The Greek Theatre is located on the south eastern slopes of the Acropolis, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. Unfortunately a large amount of the stones of the seats were removed during the Ottoman period for the construction of a mediaeval castle.
    Turkey_Teos_043.jpg
  • The Greek Theatre is located on the south eastern slopes of the Acropolis, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. Unfortunately a large amount of the stones of the seats were removed during the Ottoman period for the construction of a mediaeval castle.
    Turkey_Teos_041.jpg
  • The Greek Theatre is located on the south eastern slopes of the Acropolis, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. Unfortunately a large amount of the stones of the seats were removed during the Ottoman period for the construction of a mediaeval castle.
    Turkey_Teos_038.jpg
  • The Greek Theatre is located on the south eastern slopes of the Acropolis, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. Unfortunately a large amount of the stones of the seats were removed during the Ottoman period for the construction of a mediaeval castle.
    Turkey_Teos_035.jpg
  • View on Acropolis with the ruins of the Altar for the adjacent Temple, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Archaic temple was probably dedicated to Zeus Kapitolios.
    Turkey_Teos_033.jpg
  • Hellenistic Temple of Dionysus, designed in 220-205 BCE by the architect Hermogenes of Priene, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Temple of Dionysus is of Ionic orders and has a regular tripartite plan with a trapezoidal temenos. The Temenos was surrounded by four stoas: two Doric (north and south) and two Ionic (east and west). The plan is eustylos peripteral with six columns on a shorter side and eleven on the longer.
    Turkey_Teos_026.jpg
  • Hellenistic Temple of Dionysus, designed in 220-205 BCE by the architect Hermogenes of Priene, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Temple of Dionysus is of Ionic orders and has a regular tripartite plan with a trapezoidal temenos. The Temenos was surrounded by four stoas: two Doric (north and south) and two Ionic (east and west). The plan is eustylos peripteral with six columns on a shorter side and eleven on the longer.
    Turkey_Teos_023.jpg
  • Hellenistic Temple of Dionysus, designed in 220-205 BCE by the architect Hermogenes of Priene, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Temple of Dionysus is of Ionic orders and has a regular tripartite plan with a trapezoidal temenos. The Temenos was surrounded by four stoas: two Doric (north and south) and two Ionic (east and west). The plan is eustylos peripteral with six columns on a shorter side and eleven on the longer.
    Turkey_Teos_016.jpg
  • Hellenistic Temple of Dionysus, designed in 220-205 BCE by the architect Hermogenes of Priene, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Temple of Dionysus is of Ionic orders and has a regular tripartite plan with a trapezoidal temenos. The Temenos was surrounded by four stoas: two Doric (north and south) and two Ionic (east and west). The plan is eustylos peripteral with six columns on a shorter side and eleven on the longer.
    Turkey_Teos_013.jpg
  • West section of the four-kilometre-long Hellenistic city walls which encircled an area of sixty five hectares, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey.
    Turkey_Teos_012.jpg
  • Sign board of the archaeological site of the Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey.
    Turkey_Teos_006.jpg
  • Hellenistic Temple of Dionysus, designed in 220-205 BCE by the architect Hermogenes of Priene, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Temple of Dionysus is of Ionic orders and has a regular tripartite plan with a trapezoidal temenos. The Temenos was surrounded by four stoas: two Doric (north and south) and two Ionic (east and west). The plan is eustylos peripteral with six columns on a shorter side and eleven on the longer.
    Turkey_Teos_001.jpg
  • Water barrel vaulted arched cistern dating from the Roman period, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The rectangular structure is built of mortared rubble and has sixteen arched niches on its front façade looking north and tow on its west side.
    Turkey_Teos_076.jpg
  • The Hellenistic Bouleuterion – council house - located adjacent the Agora, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Bouleuterion had the capacity to seat 850 people and it main purpose was for political meetings, however an inscription dated to 200 BCE shows that musical and grammar performances took place there as well.
    Turkey_Teos_064.jpg
  • The Hellenistic Bouleuterion – council house - located adjacent the Agora, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Bouleuterion had the capacity to seat 850 people and it main purpose was for political meetings, however an inscription dated to 200 BCE shows that musical and grammar performances took place there as well.
    Turkey_Teos_061.jpg
  • The Hellenistic Bouleuterion – council house - located adjacent the Agora, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Bouleuterion had the capacity to seat 850 people and it main purpose was for political meetings, however an inscription dated to 200 BCE shows that musical and grammar performances took place there as well.
    Turkey_Teos_054.jpg
  • Drainage pipes of the Greek Theatre, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The theatre is located on the south eastern slopes of the Acropolis. Unfortunately, a large amount of the stones of the seats were removed during the Ottoman period for the construction of a mediaeval castle.
    Turkey_Teos_048.jpg
  • View on Acropolis with the ruins of the Altar for the adjacent Temple, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Archaic temple was probably dedicated to Zeus Kapitolios.
    Turkey_Teos_030.jpg
  • The broad and twisted trunk of an ancient and glorious Olive tree located in the Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. Olive trees are renowned for their hardiness and are drought-, disease- and fire-resistant. The Ancient Greeks revered the Olive tree and its fruit and smeared olive oil on their bodies and hair as a matter of grooming and good health. Olive oil was used to anoint kings and athletes in ancient Greece. It was burnt in the sacred lamps of temples and was the "eternal flame" of the original Olympic games. Victors in these games were crowned with its leaves.
    Turkey_Teos_072.jpg
  • View on Acropolis with the ruins of the Altar for the adjacent Temple, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Archaic temple was probably dedicated to Zeus Kapitolios.
    Turkey_Teos_029.jpg
  • West section of the four-kilometre-long Hellenistic city walls which encircled an area of sixty five hectares, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey.
    Turkey_Teos_011.jpg
  • Water barrel vaulted arched cistern dating from the Roman period, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The rectangular structure is built of mortared rubble and has sixteen arched niches on its front façade looking north and tow on its west side.
    Turkey_Teos_075.jpg
  • The Hellenistic Bouleuterion – council house - located adjacent the Agora, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Bouleuterion had the capacity to seat 850 people and it main purpose was for political meetings, however an inscription dated to 200 BCE shows that musical and grammar performances took place there as well.
    Turkey_Teos_059.jpg
  • Drainage pipes of the Greek Theatre, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The theatre is located on the south eastern slopes of the Acropolis. Unfortunately, a large amount of the stones of the seats were removed during the Ottoman period for the construction of a mediaeval castle.
    Turkey_Teos_049.jpg
  • The Greek Theatre is located on the south eastern slopes of the Acropolis, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. Unfortunately a large amount of the stones of the seats were removed during the Ottoman period for the construction of a mediaeval castle.
    Turkey_Teos_037.jpg
  • View on Acropolis with the ruins of the Altar for the adjacent Temple, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Archaic temple was probably dedicated to Zeus Kapitolios.
    Turkey_Teos_032.jpg
  • The Hellenistic Bouleuterion – council house - located adjacent the Agora, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Bouleuterion had the capacity to seat 850 people and it main purpose was for political meetings, however an inscription dated to 200 BCE shows that musical and grammar performances took place there as well.
    Turkey_Teos_063.jpg
  • The Hellenistic Bouleuterion – council house - located adjacent the Agora, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Bouleuterion had the capacity to seat 850 people and it main purpose was for political meetings, however an inscription dated to 200 BCE shows that musical and grammar performances took place there as well.
    Turkey_Teos_062.jpg
  • The Greek Theatre is located on the south eastern slopes of the Acropolis, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. Unfortunately a large amount of the stones of the seats were removed during the Ottoman period for the construction of a mediaeval castle.
    Turkey_Teos_039.jpg
  • Hellenistic Temple of Dionysus, designed in 220-205 BCE by the architect Hermogenes of Priene, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Temple of Dionysus is of Ionic orders and has a regular tripartite plan with a trapezoidal temenos. The Temenos was surrounded by four stoas: two Doric (north and south) and two Ionic (east and west). The plan is eustylos peripteral with six columns on a shorter side and eleven on the longer.
    Turkey_Teos_022.jpg
  • The Greek Theatre is located on the south eastern slopes of the Acropolis, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. Unfortunately a large amount of the stones of the seats were removed during the Ottoman period for the construction of a mediaeval castle.
    Turkey_Teos_047.jpg
  • The Greek Theatre is located on the south eastern slopes of the Acropolis, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. Unfortunately a large amount of the stones of the seats were removed during the Ottoman period for the construction of a mediaeval castle.
    Turkey_Teos_042.jpg
  • Hellenistic Temple of Dionysus, designed in 220-205 BCE by the architect Hermogenes of Priene, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Temple of Dionysus is of Ionic orders and has a regular tripartite plan with a trapezoidal temenos. The Temenos was surrounded by four stoas: two Doric (north and south) and two Ionic (east and west). The plan is eustylos peripteral with six columns on a shorter side and eleven on the longer.
    Turkey_Teos_027.jpg
  • Hellenistic Temple of Dionysus, designed in 220-205 BCE by the architect Hermogenes of Priene, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Temple of Dionysus is of Ionic orders and has a regular tripartite plan with a trapezoidal temenos. The Temenos was surrounded by four stoas: two Doric (north and south) and two Ionic (east and west). The plan is eustylos peripteral with six columns on a shorter side and eleven on the longer.
    Turkey_Teos_019.jpg
  • Hellenistic Temple of Dionysus, designed in 220-205 BCE by the architect Hermogenes of Priene, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Temple of Dionysus is of Ionic orders and has a regular tripartite plan with a trapezoidal temenos. The Temenos was surrounded by four stoas: two Doric (north and south) and two Ionic (east and west). The plan is eustylos peripteral with six columns on a shorter side and eleven on the longer.
    Turkey_Teos_017.jpg
  • West section of the four-kilometre-long Hellenistic city walls which encircled an area of sixty five hectares, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey.
    Turkey_Teos_010.jpg
  • Hellenistic Temple of Dionysus, designed in 220-205 BCE by the architect Hermogenes of Priene, Ancient Greek city of Teos, Sigacik, Turkey. The Temple of Dionysus is of Ionic orders and has a regular tripartite plan with a trapezoidal temenos. The Temenos was surrounded by four stoas: two Doric (north and south) and two Ionic (east and west). The plan is eustylos peripteral with six columns on a shorter side and eleven on the longer.
    Turkey_Teos_002.jpg
  • Priene. Turkey. Small section of 2.5 kilometres of the well preserved ancient walls of Priene that protected the city from invaders.
    Turkey_Priene_107.tif
  • Byzantine church. Priene. Turkey.
    Turkey_Priene_103.tif
  • Priene. Turkey. Ancient Ionic column drums sit abandoned along West Gate Street at Priene.
    Turkey_Priene_102.tif
  • Priene. Turkey.  Front view of the 4th century BC theatre in Priene. Located in the northern part of the city the theatre is one of the best preserved of ancient Greek theatres. The theatre had a seating capacity to seat at least 5000 people and is almost complete with stone noble armchairs, side entrances, doors, orchestras and the stage building.
    Turkey_Priene_092.tif
  • Priene. Turkey.  Front view of the 4th century BC theatre in Priene. Located in the northern part of the city the theatre is one of the best preserved of ancient Greek theatres. The theatre had a seating capacity to seat at least 5000 people and is almost complete with stone noble armchairs, side entrances, doors, orchestras and the stage building.
    Turkey_Priene_086.tif
  • Priene. Turkey. The ruins and the five re-erected columns of the 4th century Temple of Athena Polias at Priene which was considered one of the finest examples of Classical Ionic architecture.  The designer of the temple was Pythius, the Greek architect who built The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and its construction was aided by the generous support of Alexander the Great who rested at Priene en-route to conquering Persia the Great. The building was totally destroyed by a massive earthquake during the middle ages.
    Turkey_Priene_068.tif
  • Priene. Turkey. The ruins and the five re-erected columns of the 4th century Temple of Athena Polias at Priene which was considered one of the finest examples of Classical Ionic architecture.  The designer of the temple was Pythius, the Greek architect who built The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and its construction was aided by the generous support of Alexander the Great who rested at Priene en-route to conquering Persia the Great. The building was totally destroyed by a massive earthquake during the middle ages.
    Turkey_Priene_065.tif
  • Column drums. Priene. Turkey.
    Turkey_Priene_098.tif
  • Priene. Turkey.  Reer view of the 4th century BC theatre in Priene. Located in the northern part of the city the theatre is one of the best preserved of ancient Greek theatres. The theatre had a seating capacity to seat at least 5000 people and is almost complete with stone noble armchairs, side entrances, doors, orchestras and the stage building.
    Turkey_Priene_090.tif
  • Priene. Turkey.  Reer view of the 4th century BC theatre in Priene. Located in the northern part of the city the theatre is one of the best preserved of ancient Greek theatres. The theatre had a seating capacity to seat at least 5000 people and is almost complete with stone noble armchairs, side entrances, doors, orchestras and the stage building.
    Turkey_Priene_089.tif
  • Priene. Turkey.  Reer view of the 4th century BC theatre in Priene. Located in the northern part of the city the theatre is one of the best preserved of ancient Greek theatres. The theatre had a seating capacity to seat at least 5000 people and is almost complete with stone noble armchairs, side entrances, doors, orchestras and the stage building.
    Turkey_Priene_085.tif
  • Priene. Turkey. The ruins and the five re-erected columns of the 4th century Temple of Athena Polias at Priene which was considered one of the finest examples of Classical Ionic architecture.  The designer of the temple was Pythius, the Greek architect who built The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and its construction was aided by the generous support of Alexander the Great who rested at Priene en-route to conquering Persia the Great. The building was totally destroyed by a massive earthquake during the middle ages.
    Turkey_Priene_076.tif
  • Priene. Turkey.  Reaching for the sky are the re-erected columns of the 4th century Temple of Athena Polias at Priene which is considered one of the finest examples of Classical Ionic architecture.  The designer of the temple was Pythius, the Greek architect who built The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and its construction was aided by the generous support of Alexander the Great who rested at Priene en-route to conquering Persia the Great. The building was totally destroyed by a massive earthquake during the middle ages.
    Turkey_Priene_074.tif
  • Priene. Turkey.  Ancient Greek inscription on marble block from the 4th century Temple of Athena Polias at Priene.
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  • Priene. Turkey. The ruins and the five re-erected columns of the 4th century Temple of Athena Polias at Priene which was considered one of the finest examples of Classical Ionic architecture.  The designer of the temple was Pythius, the Greek architect who built The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and its construction was aided by the generous support of Alexander the Great who rested at Priene en-route to conquering Persia the Great. The building was totally destroyed by a massive earthquake during the middle ages.
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  • Column drums. Priene. Turkey.
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  • Column drums. Priene. Turkey.
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  • Priene. Turkey.  Front view of the 4th century BC theatre in Priene. Located in the northern part of the city the theatre is one of the best preserved of ancient Greek theatres. The theatre had a seating capacity to seat at least 5000 people and is almost complete with stone noble armchairs, side entrances, doors, orchestras and the stage building.
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  • Priene. Turkey.  Reer view of the 4th century BC theatre in Priene. Located in the northern part of the city the theatre is one of the best preserved of ancient Greek theatres. The theatre had a seating capacity to seat at least 5000 people and is almost complete with stone noble armchairs, side entrances, doors, orchestras and the stage building.
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  • Priene. Turkey. One of the five stone armchairs in front of the orchestra of the 4th century BC theatre at Priene. The armchairs or honorary seats were for distinguished citizens of the city and the theatre is one of the best preserved of all ancient Greek theatres.
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  • Priene. Turkey. The ruins and the five re-erected columns of the 4th century Temple of Athena Polias at Priene which was considered one of the finest examples of Classical Ionic architecture.  The designer of the temple was Pythius, the Greek architect who built The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and its construction was aided by the generous support of Alexander the Great who rested at Priene en-route to conquering Persia the Great. The building was totally destroyed by a massive earthquake during the middle ages.
    Turkey_Priene_075.tif
  • Priene. Turkey.  Reaching for the sky are the re-erected columns of the 4th century Temple of Athena Polias at Priene which is considered one of the finest examples of Classical Ionic architecture.  The designer of the temple was Pythius, the Greek architect who built The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and its construction was aided by the generous support of Alexander the Great who rested at Priene en-route to conquering Persia the Great. The building was totally destroyed by a massive earthquake during the middle ages.
    Turkey_Priene_073.tif
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