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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").
The building of the temple started merely simultaneously with the constriction of the new Priene city. It was estimated the building date is 350-330 BC. [7] After Alexander the Great gained his victory at Granicus River in 334 BC, he dedicated the Temple to Athena Polias by funding the cost of construction. [7]
The Priene Synagogue is a former ancient Jewish synagogue, that was discovered in the modern-day town of Priene in Güllübahçe, Söke, in the Aydın Province, in the Aegean Region, on the western boundary of Turkey. The former synagogue building is now an archaeological site and Jewish museum.
This is a list of notable archaeological sites sorted by country and territories. Afghanistan. Aï Khānum; ... Priene; Purushanda; Rhodiopolis; Rhosus; Rusahinili;
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.
The inscription was found in the precincts of the temple in 1868–9 by the architect Richard Pullan, who at the time was leading an archaeological exploration of Priene on behalf of the Society of Dilettanti. The dedicatory inscription was found at the end of one of the temple's walls, together with records of the Prienean Civic Codes.
looking toward the Büyük Menderes Delta from the ruins of Priene. Güllübahçe is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Söke, Aydın Province, Turkey. [1] Its population is 1,324 (2022). [2] Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town . [3] [4]
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 called the Panionia (πανιώνια).