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(KPL/Prensa Latina) An excavation team in the ancient Lycian city of Lymra, in Turkiye’s Antalya province, unearthed part of the Temple of Zeus, a structure whose exact location had remained unknown since 1982, the Anadolu Agency reported.
(KPL/Prensa Latina) An excavation team in the ancient Lycian city of Lymra, in Turkiye’s Antalya province, unearthed part of the Temple of Zeus, a structure whose exact location had remained unknown since 1982, the Anadolu Agency reported.
Although ancient sources confirmed the existence of the sanctuary, its location could not be determined for more than four decades.
Lymra, located on the slopes of Mount Tucak about nine kilometers northeast of the Finike district, was the capital of Lycia during the reign of King Pericles and later an important episcopal center in Byzantine times.
The site is notable for its remarkable concentration of rock-cut tombs, its walls, the tomb of Pericles Heron, an amphitheater with a capacity of six thousand people, Roman baths, Ptolemaic Street, and the tomb of Gaius Caesar.
The team led by Kudret Sezgin, a professor in the Department of Archaeology at Hitit University in Corum, in collaboration with the Austrian Archaeological Institute, identified the temple structure during recent excavations.
In statements to the press, Sezgin clarified that it is the Temple of Zeus, built during the Classical period, and that Zeus was the city’s principal deity during the Hellenistic and Roman eras.
KPL
