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Surroundings:

Perge AgoraPerge, Sculpture.Perge, Hellenistic towersPerge, Hellenistic towers restoredHellenistic gate with round towers, PergeHellenistic gate, PergePerge - AgoraColonnaded street in PergePerge - Southern Roman GatePerge Termas CaldariumPerge StadionStadium of PergePerge - Western colonade streetPerge - GymnasionFountain - Nympheum with the personification of the Kestros River.Fountain - Nympheum with the personification of the Kestros River. PergePerge - Western Thermes and Caracalla's nymphaionPerge TheaterPerge TheaterPerge - Nymphaeum de CaracallaPerge - Western Gate - city sideWatchtower of the western walls, PergeWatchtower of the western walls, PergePerge, TombRoman BridgeRoman Bridge

Location:

  • Türkiye, Aksu
  • geo:36.961372,30.854618
  • Location ± 100-500 m.

Class:

  • Find
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=29233

Annotations

The gaming table was unearthed on  the main street . It is not the game pessoi, which is known from ancient sources from Homeric till Roman times, which have to be a kind of draughts or chess because heare the board has the set of squares in longitudinal lines of six arranged in three rows1.

 

References

  1. George E. Bean, Turkey's Southern Shore, London, John Murray 3rd ed. 1989, pp. 33-34, fig. 3


Nearby

Perge

OmnesViae import TPPlace2357

Tycheum of Perge

Tyche temple in the middle of agora.

Perge, Hellenistic Tower

Hellenistic round tower at the city gate


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