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  • North Macedonia, Marvinci
  • geo:41.277802,22.493956
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A village on the left bank of the Vardar ca. 25 km N of Gevgelia. The site of ancient Idomenae probably is on the ridge Isar Kale in its territory. Excavations there in 1961 revealed the marble front (9.7 m wide) of an Ionic prostyle temple dedicated by the Macedoniarch in A.D. 181, according to an inscription on the fallen epistyle. A gate and part of the Roman city wall were cleared NE of the temple. Much pottery and two sculpted reliefs of the late Hellenistic period were also found.

The discovered "stadium" milestone from the 3rd or the beginning of the 2rd century BC leads to the conclusion that the name of the city was Idomene, who belonged to the southern Macedonian area called Amphacsitida. The archeological site contains remnants of a temple, dated from 181 BC and designed according to the Roman concept, later dedicated to the Roman emperor Comodus.

 


Nearby

Idomene Fortress (7 km)

Idomene Fortress

Stenas (12 km)

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Gevgelia (14 km)

Gevgelia


This object was added by René Voorburg on 2012-05-29. Last update by René Voorburg on 2014-02-09. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/3183 . Download as RDF/XML, GeoJSON, KML.
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