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20-Jun-2012 Dick Osseman

Antioch in Pisidia 20062012_2924.jpg

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One of many pictures at the Augustus Temple. A notice read: "Augustus Temple. The temple is built on the sacred area that is located at the highest point of the city after Emperor Augustus and dedicated to him. The foundation of the building is carved from the natural rock. The temple rests on a 2,5 m [high] podium and is accessed from the west façade through a flight of stairs with twelve steps. The podium of the temple measures 26 x 15 meter. The construction is a prostylos with 4 columns in front and Corinthian capitals are used. The antae of the pronaos are not in the form of a wall and there is a column at each side. The pronaos is 7,7 m long. The cella measures 12 x 10,10 m and is nearly a square in form. The thickness of the cella walls changes between 1,1 and 0,7 m. The cella wall is encircled by a frieze of scrolled leafs. A garland frize measuring 0,5 x 10 m, which is supported with burcrania, lies over the three-fascia architrave resting on the columns. In the pediment, the geison is plain; the sigma is decorated with palmette motifs and in the central part, there is a window surrounded with egg and bead rows (epiphany). Between the scrolls of the apex acroterium Nike; on the sides acanthus leaves are depicted in high relief. Behind the temple there is a two-storey gallery formed by carving the natural rock in a semi-circular shape. Doric columns are used in the downstairs while Ionic columns are used in the upper floor. In front of the temple, an area named after the Emperor and measuring 63 x 85 is created. The foundations of the porticos in the north and south of the area, approximately 5 m wide can be partially traced. The finds from the inscriptions and decorative works of the structure indicate that the construction activities continued in the period spanning the time of Roman Emperor Tiberius to the time of Claudius. "

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