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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28JR_hierapolis_Denizli.html
English Text: (1) Northern Necropolis (2) Baths - Basilica (3) Suburban Theatre (4) Frontinus Gate (5) Latrina (6) Nymphaeum of the Tritons (7) Agora (8) Frontinus Street (9) Temple Nymphaeum (10) Temple of Apollon …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM269C_historic-notes-about-the-shrine_Izmir.html
This place is considered to be the last home of the Blessed Virgin the Mother of Jesus Christ. The Facts as found in the Scriptures: · St. John in (h)is Gospel tells us that Jesus before dying on the Cross entrusted to him the care …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2667_the-archaic-classical-settlement-and-the-sepulchre-street_Izmir.html
English Text: In the 8th century B.C. a village settlement was founded at the bay where the sea reached up to the Roman-period West Gate of the Agora; this settlement is probably Smyrna, attested in literature. Excavations in the western part of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM265Q_the-south-gate-of-the-agora_Izmir.html
The richly ornamented gate was financed by imperial freedmen Mazaeus and Mithridates in 2 B.C. The refined articulation of the southern façade with alternating projecting and re-entrant elements, as well as the use of arches and beams, was repeat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2651_hadrians-gate_Izmir.html
English Text: The three-storeyed gateway marks the junction of the Processional Way in the direction of Ortygia. Two narrower passageways framed the broad street gateway, of which the upper storey is reminiscent of Hadrian's Gate in Athens. Alrea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM264U_the-heroon-of-androclos_Izmir.html
English Text: Over a u-shaped pedestal with Doric façade architecture arose an open upper storey of the Ionic order. In front of the building is a water basin; its enclosure panels were renovated in the late antique period, and for this reason i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM264S_the-varius-bath_Izmir.html
The Varius Bath Between the 'Bath' and the 'Academy Alley' at the northern side of the Curetes Street, the Varius Bath was established in the 1st half of the 2nd century A.D. The bathrooms were entered through a sizable apsidal hall; over the cov…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2623_the-heracles-gate_Izmir.html
English Text: The so-called Heracles Gate bordered the Curetes Street to the east. Its present appearance derives from late antique adaptations, and the appearance of the imperial gateway cannot be reconstructed anymore. Both pillars, decorated…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM260U_baths-at-the-state-agora_Izmir.html
English Text: The Roman bathing facility should be located at the site of an earlier, Hellenistic gymnasium. Four bathing rooms at the northern side were partly hewn out of the bedrock. The caldarium (hot room) lying to the west possessed seven…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM260Q_temple-on-the-state-agora_Izmir.html
English Text: In the western part of the 'State Agora' there is a peripteral temple on a 23 x 15 m podium with 6 x 10 columns and additional columns at the front. Most probably this temple was erected at the time of Emperor Augustus or Tiberius, …
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