Temple of Augustus
Mylasa (Milas), Asia minor (Turkey)
~1st century CE
The temple of Augustus was a hexastyle temple of the composite order. It was an unusual peripteral temple with a square naos and lavishly decorated composite columns with Acanthus bases, and garlands decorating the top of the shafts. Its entablatures frieze was decorated with alternating bucrania and tripods and its tympanum may had a window. The temple no longer exists as its materials have since partially been taken by Turks to build a mosque.
Couldn’t find almost any information on this temple, and the text above was written by me based on artistic reconstructions by painters who saw the ruin prior to its removal.
In 40 BCE Mylasa suffered great damage when it was taken by Labienus in the Roman Civil War. In the Greco-Roman period, though the city was contested among the successors of Alexander, it enjoyed a season of brilliant prosperity, and the three neighbouring towns of Euromus, Olymos and Labranda were included within its limits. Mylasa is frequently mentioned by ancient writers. At the time of Strabo the city boasted two remarkable orators, Euthydemos and Hybreas. Various inscriptions tell us that the Phrygian cults were represented here by the worship of Sabazios; the Egyptian, by that of Isis and Osiris. There was also a temple of Nemesis. An inscription from Mylasa[8] provided one of the few certain data about the life of Cornelius Tacitus, identifying him as governor of Asia in 112-13.
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