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Location

  • Türkiye, Bağarcık
  • geo:37.545807,27.621548

Period or year

  • -3xx / unknown

Classification

  • temple
  • Visible

Zeus Akraios Temple

data access 60830
  1. https://www.academia.edu/44930880/Da%C4%9Fl%C4%B1k_Amyzon_daki_Ba%C4%9Farc%C4%B1k_Kale_Zeus_Akraios_ve_Thea_Akre_Tap%C4%B1na%C4%9F%C4%B1_The_Temple_of_Zeus_Akraios_and_Thea_Akre_at_Amyzon_at_the_Rock_Ba%C4%9Farc%C4%B1k_Kale_ 
  2. Zeus Akraios is a small temple of a settlement on the hill covered with pine trees in the West of Bagarcik. The temple is almost square planned. On the entrance part, shield and helmet was placed on top of the pillars. From the epigraphs it was understood that it was devoted to Zeus on the Mountain Peak (Akraios), mountain being the nearby Tekerlekdag peak of Latmos Mountains. An antique King Road of large stone slabs connects the temple to the Carian city of Herakleia Latmos by Lake Bafa almost 17 km away on the west.

Ref: Peschlow-Bindokat, 1996

Nearby sites

  • Bağarcık Yukari
    Amyzon at the Rock?
    Türkiye, Bağarcık
  • Çörlenasar Roman Castle
    Roman Castle built on a giant massive rock block controlling the Latmos passage from Amyzon to Euromos and Iasos on the south, and Herakleia Latmos on the west.
    Türkiye, Bağarcık
  • Naxia
    A village affiliated to Carian city of Amyzon.
    Türkiye, Kızılcabölük
  • Göktepe Rock Paintings
    6000 - 5000 bce
    Türkiye, Karakaya

Use and reuse

Creators: Entry created by SADIK BAYDERE (2019-03-26) , last updated by p. jeffries (2024-04-03), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/60830
Data downloads: KML, RDF
Suggested citation: BAYDERE, S. and Jeffries, P., Zeus Akraios Temple. https://vici.org/vici/60830, accessed 2026-11-07.