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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.
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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 ...
Naulochon was the port of Priene. Susan Sherwin-White interpreted the edict as confirming that those Prienians who resided at Naulochon retained the same rights as those living in Priene, identifying those villages around Priene that owed tax to the king and confirming Priene's exemption from taxation. [ 6 ]
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 ...
Archaeologists have finally deciphered the meaning, long debated, of a text inscribed on an ancient Turkish monument.. The heavily damaged inscription, written in the Old Phrygian language, is ...
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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").