Letoon information about the ancient city, near Fethiye

Letoon information about the ancient city, near Fethiye

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The Letoon, sometimes Latinized as Letoum, was a sanctuary of Leto near the ancient city Xanthos that was one of the most important religious centres of the Lycian region in Anatolia. The site is located between the towns of Kaş and Fethiye in Antalya province of Turkey, approximately four km south of Xanthos along the Xanthos River.

Archaeological finds at the site, which was never a fully occupied settlement, but remained essentially a religious centre, date back to the late sixth century BCE, before the Greek cultural hegemony in Lycia, which began in the early fourth century. In earlier times, the site was probably already sacred to the cult of an earlier mother goddess— she is Eni Mahanahi in Lycia— which was superseded by the worship of Leto, joined by her twin offspring.

The "Lycian" Apollo, a Roman pastiche in a Praxitelean manner

In Greek mythology, a claim for an early cult of Apollo in the valley of the Xanthus, unsupported by history or archaeology, was provided by two myths, each connected to an eponymous "Lycus". One sprang from the autochthonous Telchines of Rhodes and would have colonized the region at the time of Deucalion's flood; the other Lycus was an Athenian brother of Aegeus driven from Athens, a seer who introduced the cult of Lycaean Apollo, which a folk etymology connected with Lycia and therefore made him its Athenian colonizer: see Lycus.

The foundations of the Hellenistic temple dedicated to Leto, and her children, Artemis and Apollo, have been excavated under the direction of H. Metzger from 1962.Archæologists have excavated much of the ruins; discoveries include the Letoon trilingual, bearing inscriptions in Greek, Lycian and Aramaic, which has provided crucial keys in the deciphering of the Lycian language; it is conserved in the Fethiye Museum.

The sacrosanctity of the site is the purport of an anecdote related by Appian concerning Mithridates, who was planning to cut down the trees in the sacred grove for his own purposes in his siege of the Lycian coastal city of Patara, but was warned against the sacrilegious action in a nightmare. The site remained active through the Roman period. The site was Christianised by the construction of an early church, which reused cut stone from the sanctuary, but was abandoned from the seventh century CE.

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Mosaic Museum, the temple's floor mosaics exhibited in a museum Misis

Mosaic Museum, the temple's floor mosaics exhibited in a museum Misis

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Misis Mosaic Museum, Adana Yuregir Misis metropolitan district of the town, which is active since 1959 and remain in the ancient city of Misis, 4 late-century floor mosaics exhibited in a museum in the temple. Depends on the Museum of London Archaeology. Adana, 26 kilometers away.

Misis ancient city located within the boundaries of the floor mosaics of the basilica in 1956, the German archaeologists who excavated Mound Misis Prof. delegation. Dr. H. And Dr. Theodor Bossert. Were revealed by Ludwig Budde. Mosaics from the mound to protect the museum has been established. During the flood of Noah's ark devrien Byzantine mosaics depicted the animals. In the form of a table or stand in the middle of the mosaic is made ​​of Noah's Flood in and around the ship, where a flock of 23 birds and poultry, wild and domestic animals in this group are around. Glass brick walls of the museum is composed of light to pass.

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Ankara Roman Bath was built by the Roman Emperor Caracalla

Ankara Roman Bath was built by the Roman Emperor Caracalla

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Roman Bath in Ankara, Ulus Square and Yildirim Beyazit Square Çankırı Street stretching takes place, 3 century Roman emperor Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus in the name of Asclepius was the God of Health. Today, a mound of this platform is called the Roman Baths, the top Roman Period (Partially Byzantine and Seljuk layers) , it was found under the ruins of the Phrygian Age settlement.

Beneath the mound of stone ruins are very well protected, can be determined by the structure plan. According to this structure appeared to be a provincial city by the standards of the Imperial bath too.

Hammam 80 x 130 m. size, made of stone and brick. Çankırı Street entrance, with the remains of a portico with columns, surrounded by a wide area of ​​physical education and wrestling to the ground and entered the so-called Palaestra. This section of the columns on the right side of the road and round the four corners, there are many written column.

Phirigidarium just behind the playing field (cold) part, sitting at the edges of the steps to the left in the piscina (swimming pool) and apoditarium (changing location), to the right column made of round pieces of tuğludan is located in the cold. Ranked second in the tepidarium (warmth) is located at the parts of the round brick columns. Bathing rooms bulunmaktaymış on these columns. Caldarium (temperature) is part of the bathhouse is located at the rear, there are 12 units a boiler room.

Warm and hot parts of the other sections of Ankara, the larger reason for being connected to a very cold winter conditions. They wander freely around the hot air from the furnace of brick columns and above is supported by an underground heating system in this manner ısınırlardı rooms.

VII. The building, which was severely damaged by a fire in his century, during excavations uncovered coins, with nearly five hundred year period is used and understood that from time to time repaired.

Archeological excavations carried out between 1938-1943 by the Turkish Historical Society, baths, dressing and bathing in the bottom of the furnace parts and service roads have been excavated.

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