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Location

  • Türkiye, Güllübahçe Turun
  • geo:37.659306,27.296576

Period or year

  • -3xx / unknown

Classification

  • temple
  • Visible

Identifiers

Temple of Athena - Priene

data access 11332
  1. The Temple of Athena Polias in Priene was built by Pytheos(Pytheos)1. Alexander the Great gave money to complete the temple ca. 330 BC as it was memorized on an anta of the temple (inscription is in British Museum).

See:

  1. Vitruvius, de Architectura I.1.12
  2. Hans Riemann: Pytheos. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Band XXIV, Stuttgart 1963, Sp. 371–513 , https://elexikon.ch/RE/XXIV_373.png
  3. Temple of Athena - Priene. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priene

References

  1. ↑ Pythius, one of the antients,º architect of the noble temple of Minerva at Priene

Relevant museums

  • Pergamon Museum in Berlin
    Houses original-sized, reconstructed monumental buildings such as the Market Gate of Miletus.
    Germany, Berlin

Nearby sites

Use and reuse

Creators: Entry created by Voorburg, R.J.J. (2012-12-19) , last updated by p. jeffries (2024-03-10), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/11332
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Suggested citation: Voorburg, R.J.J. and Jeffries, P. (2024) Temple of Athena - Priene. Vici.org: archaeological atlas of antiquity. https://vici.org/vici/11332, accessed 2026-11-14.