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Temple of ArtemisTemple of Artemisionic column ...detailTemple of Apollo, LetoonTemple of Apollo MosaicTemple of Apollo, construction detailNymphaeumLetoon, Egyptian scarab sealHellenistic stoatrilingual stele. 337 bce. (Fethiye museum)Letoon Theater EntranceLetoon TheaterLetoon TheaterHelmetLetoon. theaterRoman BridgeCity gate.Nereids monument base.Nereid MonumentPillar tombRoman Theatre in XanthosHarp Monument. XanthosThe Roman theatre, built in the mid-2nd century ADRoman theatre and Lycian tombsXanthus TheaterXanthos - theatreXanthos - theatreXanthos, West ChurchXanthus AgoraInscribed Pillar of Xanthos - Harpagus Stele

Location:

  • Türkiye, Tümtün
  • geo:36.330849,29.288639
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -4xx~ / unknown

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=11856

Annotations

The temple of Leto intensely worshipped in Lycia was erected in the second century BC. It is a Doric peripteros of eleven by six columns with pronaos,  cella and episthodomus.

See:

  1. George E. Bean, Lycian Turkey: An Archaeological Guide, London John Murray Publishers Ltd 1989, p. 60-62

http://www.lycianturkey.com/lycian_sites/letoon-layout.htm


Nearby

Letoon, Artemision

Artemis Temple.

Apollo Temple

Apollo/Natri Temple

Nymphaeum Letoon

Nymphaeum Letoon


This object was added by Randal Gilbert on 2012-12-30. Last update by Elżbieta on 2019-09-16. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/11856 . Download as RDF/XML, GeoJSON, KML.
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