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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM292Y_water-channels_Izmir.html
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Water channels big enough for a person to pass easily through them have been identified beneath the modern city within the agora and south of it. Today water from an unidentified source still flows through these channels; it is un…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM292S_honorary-inscription_Izmir.html
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Honorary inscription erected by the city of Smyrna in honor of the chief priest of the Province of Asia, Iulius Menekles Diophantos (200-250 A.D.)
"May good fortune attend. In beauty and size the first and most famous city of A…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM292G_the-basement-of-the-west-portico_Izmir.html
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The basement that you are now visiting consists of three galleries and was constructed by using arches. The crookedness that you see in the axis of the arches is thought to be the result of hurried repairs, done to make the buildi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM291F_neocorus-of-the-cult-of-the-emperor-at-smyrna_Izmir.html
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Inscribed base of a statue of Claudius Aristophanes Aurelianus, neocorus of the cult of the emperor at Smyrna (end of 2nd beginning of 3rd century A.D.).
When used for a person the term neocorus meant "servant of the temple" (t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2915_the-dream-of-alexander-the-great_Izmir.html
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Pausanius, a geographer and traveler of the 2nd century A.D., relates that Alexander came to the slopes of Mt Pagos (Kadifekale) to hunt, that he fell asleep under a plane tree by a spring in front of the Temple of Nemesis, and that…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM290V_the-agora-of-smyrna_Izmir.html
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In the courtyard of the Agora there were shipped monuments erected in honor of important persons, days and agreements. There were also statues, altars belonging to multiple gods at which offerings were made in religious ceremonies…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2902_the-agora-of-smyrna_Izmir.html
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The agora of Smyrna was the city's administrative, political, judicial, and commercial center. It was located in the center and covered a rectangular area in conformance with the gridiron plan of the city.
Remains found in the a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28ZR_the-ancient-city-of-smyrna_Izmir.html
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A result of excavations carried out on the Yeslova Mound, located in the sub-district of Bornova on the eastern side of the Bay of Izmir, it has become clear that Izmir's past goes back 8500 years. The first city to be called Smyr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28XE_the-west-portico_Izmir.html
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The West Portico is one of the columned galleries which surrounded the courtyard of the Agora. It is not possible today to see clearly what kind of building it was. But from architectural traces and fragments that have been retrie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28WW_the-ancient-city-of-smyrna_Izmir.html
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The geographer and traveller Strabo, writing in the 1st century B.C., stated that the city was constructed by two of Alexander's commanders, Antigonus and Lysimachus. In the Hellenistic and Roman periods, thanks to its perfect loc…