#ancient Turkey

[flaroh]

"This is the tomb of the dog, Stephanos, who perished. Whom Rhodope shed tears for and buried like a human.

I am the dog Stephanos, and Rhodope set up a tomb for me"

This piece is a tribute to two members of the ancient world, who lived in the Greek city of Termessos in modern day Turkey. We know about them today as Stephanos, a dog, had a tomb dedicated to him by his owner, Rhodope, who was also laid to rest nearby. As far as I can research, we don't know the exact details of when they lived, or much about their lives, except that Rhodope wanted us to know how much Stephanos meant to her.

His tomb was found near Rhodope’s own inscribed sarcophagus, which states that she set up the tomb completely and exclusively for herself. This suggests she was a single, independent wealthy woman.

Stephanos' remains are lost to time, but based on the size, and his role as a lady's companion dog, it is likely he was a melitan breed. This breed was a small, spitz-type dog that was incredibly popular in antiquity.

[ancientstuff]

Nice that for once it isn't an economic document. Not so nice that it's about a catastrophe.

[spice-hill]

Mosaic with Personification of the River Tigris, late 100-200

Roman culture, excavated at Antioch, Southern Turkey

[traveltash]

Changing time and place with a single step

Changing time and place with a single step

When you step under and then through the Babylonian Ishtar Gate in the Pergamon Museum, you step under and out of the market gate of Miletus in Turkey. The gate was constructed in the second century of the Common Era, most likely under the reign of Emperor Hadrian (famous for his across Great Britain). The gate suffered earthquake damage on at least two occasions when in its original location.…

[ashotasfireandasdeepastheocean1]

Temple and sanctuary of Apollo in Didima, Turkey, one of the largest from the Hellenistic period. With a plan of 51m x 109m, it had 120 Ionic columns. The complex was a place as sacred as Delphi, it was never fully completed as it did not have a roof.

Majestic Place ♡

...ancient history

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Didyma, Temple of Apollo

Photo credit: F. Tronchin

[blueiscoool]

Stone carved Medusa from the Temple of Apollo at Didyma in Turkey.

[covenawhite66]

The site at Sayburç was inhabited during the Neolithic in the 9th millennium BC, a period when people shifted from a mobile hunter-gatherer lifestyle to farming and living in long-term settlements.

Depictions of people interacting. These picture of the stories that formed the ideology of the people of that period.”

[miamaimania]

Sacred Waters ✨️ Pamukkale's Limestone Basins

[rosechata]

cappadocia, turkey

caspar tromp

[sheltiechicago]

The nine muses of Ancient Greece discovered in the ancient Greek city of Zeugma, now in modern-day Turkey. The mosaics have been almost perfectly preserved for over 2,000 years

[vyoru]

Mochis x the Olympics !

Some card art I did for the mochidex ! So glad Im finally able to post these. You should totally get the bot in your server if you haven’t, lots of amazing artists that put their hard work into this event !! super fun

[ancientstuff]

https://www.archaeology.org/slideshow/12150-turkey-stone-mounds-neolithic-sites

Visions of a New Neolithic World

What was going on in Neolithic Turkey?!? These sites absolutely mesmerise me. So many questions.

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Library of Celsus in Ephesus, Anatolia, TÜRKIYE

[m1male2]

Basilica Cistern, Istanbul, Turkey built in the year 532 during the reign of Justinian I. It supplied the city with water and is approx. 9800 m² of surface. It is capable of holding between 80,000 and 100,000 m³ of water.

[grecoromanyaoi]

person looking at any global or historical phenomanon: surely i can analyze this strictly through the united states' racial structures, right? right?

[blueiscoool]

Painted Scylla Statues Found in Turkey

Excavations in ancient Laodicea have revealed a rare collection of painted Scylla statues.

Laodicea was an Ancient Greek city on the river Lycus, located in the present-day Denizli Province, Turkey.

The city was founded between 261-253 BC by Antiochus II Theos, king of the Seleucid Empire, in honour of his wife Laodice. Over the next century, Laodicea emerged as a major trading centre and was one of the most important commercial cities of Asia Minor.

After the Battle of Magnesia during the Roman–Seleucid War (192–188 BC), control of large parts of western Asia Minor, including Laodicea, was transferred to the Kingdom of Pergamon. However, the entire Kingdom of Pergamon would eventually be annexed by the expanding Roman Republic in 129 BC.

The many surviving buildings of Laodicea include the stadium, bathhouses, temples, a gymnasium, two theatres, and the bouleuterion (Senate House).

Recent excavations led by Prof. Dr. Celal Şimşek from Pamukkale University have revealed a rare collection of painted Scylla statues during restoration works of the stage building in the Western Theatre.

In Greek mythology, Scylla is a man-eating monster who lives on one side of a narrow strait, opposite her counterpart, the sea-swallowing monster Charybdis. The two sides of the strait are so close (within an arrow’s range), that sailors trying to avoid Charybdis’s whirlpools would dangerously come into range of Scylla.

Scylla is first mentioned in Homer’s Odyssey, where Odysseus and his crew encounter both Scylla and Charybdis during their voyage back to Ithica following the conclusion of the Trojan War.

In a press statement by Nuri Ersoy, Minister of Culture and Tourism: “These extraordinary sculptures are quite important in terms of being rare works that reflect the baroque style of the Hellenistic Period and have survived to the present day with their original paints.”

The archaeologists suggest that the sculptures were made by sculptors in Rhodes during the early 2nd century BC and are the oldest known examples from antiquity.