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22-DEC-2007

Istanbul dec 2007 2478.jpg

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These pictures are of the temple of Magnesia Artemis Leucophryene (The white eyebrowed Artemis). Built on the ruins of an earlier temple this one was erected in the late 3rd-early 2nd century BC in an Ionian style. The museum shows the friezes of this temple in their original order, though arranged on occasion in two rows, because of lack of space. I did not take a picture of all of the parts, some seemed to be too weathered to be of interest.

Detail of the North Frieze, a warrior with a Corynthian (so not Anatolian) helmet in the centre who reaches his hand out to an Amazone, next to them Hekate. The Amazone symbolizes the city of Stratonicea and the warrior Rome. So this is a symbolization of a legal pact between Asia Minor and Rome. The reason was the granting of citizenship to the citizens of Stratonicea. The temple dated from the 2nd century BC.

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