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Second part of the calendar inscription of Priene. The Priene calendar inscription (IK Priene 14) is an inscription in stone recovered at Priene (an ancient Greek city, in Western Turkey) that records an edict by Paullus Fabius Maximus, proconsul of the Roman province of Asia and a decree of the conventus of the province accepting the edict from 9 BC.
Priene inscription may refer to: Priene inscription of Alexander the Great (c. 330 BC) Alexander the Great's edict to Priene (334 BC, but inscribed in the 280s BC)
The Priene inscription is a dedicatory inscription by Alexander the Great, which was discovered at the Temple of Athena Polias in Priene (modern Turkey), in the nineteenth century. It now forms an important part of the British Museum 's Ancient Greek epigraphic collection and provides a direct link to one of the most famous persons in ancient ...
Alexander the Great issued an edict, probably in the summer of 334 BC, to the city of Priene. [1] On the Temple of Athena Polias a section of the edict was inscribed across four marble blocks "near the top of the east face of the north anta of the pronaos." [2] It was inscribed in Koine Greek the 280s BC during the reign of Lysimachus. The same ...
The Alexander's inscription. It is "King Alexander dedicated the temple to Athena Polias. [9]" British Museum. This dedication originally was not for this temple. The Alexander firstly found the temple of Artemis in Ephesos for dedication. [10] However, he was refused. [10] Thereafter, he, travelling alongside the coast, found Priene and gave ...
Priene (Ancient Greek: Πριήνη, romanized: Priēnē; Turkish: Prien) was an ancient Greek city of Ionia (and member of the Ionian League) located at the base of an escarpment of Mycale, about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) north of what was then the course of the Maeander River (now called the Büyük Menderes or "Big Maeander").
Experts said the small knife dates back to about 150 A.D., and it is inscribed with a message using the oldest known rune alphabet. The five runes spell the name “hirila,” which translates to ...
Priene was about 15 kilometres (9 mi) away, on the opposite side of Mt. Mycale. The Prienians managed the sanctuary and presided at the sacrifices and sacred rites. The Panionium was the site of the Ionian religious festival and games ( panegyris ) called the Panionia (πανιώνια).