Klazomenai
Coordinates: 38 ° 21 '29.4 " N , 26 ° 46' 3.3" E
Klazomenai ( Greek Κλαζομεναί , Turkish Kilizman ) was an ancient city in Ionia ( Asia Minor ). It was on the north side of the isthmus of Teos , about 36 kilometers west of today's city of İzmir , the former Smyrna, near Urla in the Turkish province of Izmir .
Klazomenai was born in 654 BC. Founded by the Ionians based on Colophon . In the 5th century BC For better protection, the site was moved to an island off the coast, which was later connected to the mainland by a dam. A ridge named after the Mimas separated the city from Erythrai . Klazomenai was the birthplace of the pre-Socratics Anaxagoras (499-428 BC), who was best known for his work On Nature , and the sophist Skopelianos , who lived at the end of the 1st century AD. The Roman procurator Gessius Florus was born here.
Excavations brought to light, among other things, Attic ceramics and the so-called Kore von Klazomenai , the torso of a female statue. The city's potters produced the so-called Clazomenic sarcophagi , painted clay sarcophagi, which were also exported.
literature
- Helmut Engelmann : The inscriptions of Erythrai and Klazomenai . 2 volumes. Habelt, Bonn 1972–73, ISBN 3-7749-1164-9 (= inscriptions of Greek cities from Asia Minor, Vol. 1–2).
- George Ewart Bean : Klazomenai (Klazümen) Ionia, Turkey . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
- George Ewart Bean: Asia Minor . Volume 1. Aegean Turkey from Pergamon to Didyma . 5th edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-17-009678-8 , pp. 127-135.
- Aliki Moustaka et al. (Ed.): Klazomenai, Teos and Abdera: metropoleis and colony. Proceedings of the International Symposium held at the Archaeological Museum of Abdera, October 20-21, 2001 . University Studio Press, Thessaloniki 2004, ISBN 960-12-1313-9 .
