Other· Altındağ, Ankara
Zeus Taenos Tapınağı
Zeus Taenos Tapınağı is a other in Altındağ, Ankara; In his ten-volume work Periegesis tes Hellados (Description of Greece), the Lydian (thought to be from Manisa) traveller and geographer Pausanias (2nd century AD) writes that he saw the anchor (ankhor), the symbol of Ankyra, in Ankara's Temple of Jupiter (the Roman name for Zeus).
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- 39.9385°N · 32.8614°E
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In his ten-volume work Periegesis tes Hellados (Description of Greece), the Lydian (thought to be from Manisa) traveller and geographer Pausanias (2nd century AD) writes that he saw the anchor (ankhor), the symbol of Ankyra, in Ankara's Temple of Jupiter (the Roman name for Zeus). Coins from Ankara also depict a temple bearing an eagle, the symbol of Zeus, on its pediment (Erzen, 2010). An inscription on a very large stone column held in the Mahmut Paşa Bedesten, today the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, reveals the existence of the Temple of Zeus Taenos (Erzen, 2010).
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