Lagina
Coordinates: 37 ° 23 ' N , 28 ° 2' E
Lagina was an ancient place in Caria that had an important Hecate sanctuary . It was near today's Turgut , 15 kilometers northwest of Yatağan in the Turkish province of Muğla .
Lagina belonged to the territory of Stratonikeia , with which it was connected by a processional road. The temple probably dates from the 2nd century BC. BC 34 relief panels of the entablature frieze are now in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum .
Hecataion
The temple of Hecate, which was still very famous in Strabon's time (XIV 2, 25), rose in a vast sacred area ( Temenos ) surrounded by Doric porticoed halls . The relatively small pseudodipteros of 8 × 11 columns rests on a 5-tier crepe . The cella , measuring just under 7 × 8 meters, was preceded by an almost 6-meter-deep vestibule, pronaos , of whose ante pillars a capital has been preserved. The pillars of the ring hall, peristasis , stood on Attic bases with plinths inserted underneath . The capitals of the peristasis were of the Corinthian order and followed the normal type. The 68 centimeter high architrave had an astragala-lined festoon on the underside . The outer and inner sides were decorated with two fascia. Above that followed the frieze , which is 93 centimeters high, which is relatively high . Of the frieze, 34 panels with over 200 figures are known. It is the last figure frieze that was installed on a temple in Asia Minor . Among other things, it represents a treaty or peace agreement between Romans and Greeks or peoples of Asia Minor. Geison , Sima and gable are not preserved.
There were two inscriptions on the anterior forehead and cella wall. The inscription on the cella wall is a Senatus consultum from the year 81 BC. It deals, among other things, with the renewals of treaties between Rome and Stratonikeia and the bestowal of asylum on the Hecate shrine by Rome. The inscription on the ante is a popular resolution. Which historical events are alluded to in the referendum cannot be clarified with absolute certainty.
The temple was probably built in two phases. The first in the last third of the 2nd century BC. BC, the second around 80 BC. In the Trajan period, the sanctuary was surrounded on three sides with a portico and provided with a propylon , which had a staircase rounded outwards. They probably added an older hall on the west side.
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Propylon
Hekatetempel
Altar area
Rows of seats for visitors
literature
- Peter Baumeister: The frieze of the Hecateion of Lagina. New studies on monument and context. German Archaeological Institute, Istanbul 2007, ISBN 978-975-8071-56-2 (= Byzas, Volume 6).
- George Ewart Bean : Lagina 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 .
- Ulrich Junghölter: On the composition of the Lagina frieze and the interpretation of the north frieze . Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1989, ISBN 3-631-42167-2 (= European university publications, series 38, volume 29).
- Frank Rumscheid : Investigations into building ornamentation in Asia Minor. Volume 1, 1994, p. 132 ff.
- Mehmet Çetin Şahin: The inscriptions from Stratonikeia. Part 2.1: Lagina, Stratonikeia and surroundings. Habelt, Bonn 1982, ISBN 3-7749-1894-5 (= inscriptions of Greek cities from Asia Minor , volume 22.1).
- Ralf Schenk: The Corinthian Temple until the end of the Principate of Augustus . In: International Archeology. Volume 45, 1997, ISBN 978-3-89646-317-3 , pp. 28 ff.
Web links
- fotografcilar.com ( Memento of February 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive )