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Stephanos Byzantinos writes in his Ethica that Mylasa was named after Mylasus, son of Chrysaor, the grandchild of Sisyphus and Aelos. The ancient Greeks regarded the Carians as the oldest habitants in the Aegean region, together with the Lelegs and Plasgs.

In the epics of Homeros, thStephanos Byzantinos writes in his Ethica that Mylasa was named after Mylasus, son of Chrysaor, the grandchild of Sisyphus and Aelos. The ancient Greeks regarded the Carians as the oldest habitants in the Aegean region, together with the Lelegs and Plasgs. In the epics of Homeros, the Carians and the Lelegs are mentioned as being of Asian origin, having fought in alliance with Priamos, the Trojan king.

Herodotus, the historian from Halicarnassus, mentions three novelties in the outfits of battle attires. First of all, the shields which hitherto were wrapped around the neck and the left shoulder with leather straps, were slipped to the arm to allow for freedom of movement. Secondly, the exterior of the shields was ornamented with paintings, and, thirdly, the helmets had plumes. The name Caria is derived from the plume on the helmet worn in battles. Strabon states that the root of the word Caria lies in describing a plumed helmet.

Mylasa took part in the Ionian rebellion and the Persian Wars in the fifth century B.C. In 446 B.C., following the Berymidon Battle, Mylasa joined the Attica-Delos Naval Confederacy. In 334 B.C. Alexander the Great, in his campaign in Asia, conquered south-western Anatolia, as well as Mylasa, but later gave this territory to Ada, the Carian queen. In 189 B.C. Antiochus III, the King of Syria, was defeated by the Romans and had to leave many of the Carian cities, excepting Mylasa, to Rhodians.

In 143 B.C. Mylasa was appointed by the Roman Emperor Macmilius to act as adjudicator in a dispute and thus became the seat of conventus, where the Roman governors presided the assizes. The last king of Pergamum, Attalos III, donated Mylasa to Rome in 129 B.C., and the city was reigned by Roman rulers. In Byzantine times, Mylasa was a bishopric centre. In the 13th century it was dominated by the Turks and became the administrative centre of Menteşe Gulları in 1392.

With the proclamation of the Turkish Republic, it became a township of Muğla.

GÜMÜŞKESEN MONUMENTAL TOMB

This monument is estimated to have been founded in the second century A.D. It has a rectangular grave chamber with a wall of broad-and-narrow masonry, containing four pillars supporting the floor of the upper story. The upper story is supported by an open colonnade, with a square pilaster at each corner and two partially fluted oval columns on each of the four sides.

The monument is erected on a crepis with two steps. The roof is formed of five layers of blocks, with each block placed diagonally across the angles of the one below, to form a shallow pyramid. There is a hole on the floor of the upper story, presumably to pour wine down to the deceased lying below.

GATE WITH AXE

This was built towards the end of the first century A.D. The decoration of the piers consist of a row of flutes surmounting a row of palmets. It takes its name from the double axe relief on the keystone of the arch on the outer side.

ZEUS CARIUS TEMPLE

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The temple is on a podium, 3.5 m. in height, on the hill to the west of Hisarbaşı district. It has a single column called Uzunyuva.

AQUEDUCTS

The aqueducts in two levels along the plains in the east of Mylasa are dated to the early Byzantine period. In their construction, antique architectural pieces were reused.

BUILDINGS AS SPECIMENS OF CIVILIAN ARCHITECTURE

Entrance to the Milas houses is generally through a small or large interior courtyard. The gate to the courtyard is either on the side or below the houses lining the street. The houses are in two stories with the upper rooms overhanging the street. The wooden supports of these overhangings are plain in modest houses. In buildings from the second half of the 19th century, these supports were connected with lath and plaster workmanship known as the Baghdad technique. Most of the houses face an open hall or courtyard named “önlük”. The first floor is usually for storage. The stone paved space in front called “taşlık” is below the hall.

The kitchen, toilette and stables are in a separate corner of the courtyard. Generally an antique marble stairway leads to the second story. There are also stairways with wooden steps laid on marble blocks. On the other hand, some houses are built with the influence of European architects who came to the region shortly after the proclamation of the Turkish Republic. The latter, in contrast to typical Milas houses, were built as enclosures. They are generally on two levels where there is a living room in the centre which opens to the other rooms on the sides. The kitchen and toilette in these are within the houses.

ÇÖLLÜOGLU CARAVANSERAI

It is at Hisarbaşı district, built in 1719-1720 (H.1132). It was donated in 1738 to the medresse (theological school) built near the Agha Mosque by Abdülaziz Agha. The caravanserai is in two stories and rectangular in shape. The lower floor has arches supporting the upper story, which are somewhat broken. In the construction, plenty of stone and rubbles from previous buildings were reused. The lower floor consists of open spaces to tie up animals, which is typical of the Ottoman inns. This space is supported by columns on which the porch of the upper floor is erected. The roof is covered with grooved tiles. The building reflects the original architectural pattern on a large scale.

SAMPLES OF RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE HACI ILYAS MOSQUE

The mosque was built in 1330 (H.730) in the central Hacı Ilyas district of Milas during the Menteşeoğulları regime, by Şucaaddin Orhan Beg. There is a single praying room with three sections in front for congregation. The dome and the roof are covered with grooved tiles. ULU MOSQUE It was built in 1378 (H.780) in the Hocabedreddin district. It is the largest mosque in Milas. The side walls are supported with huge pillars. A lot of the material is reused. The mosque is divided into three courtyards in the south by two rows of pillars. The first pillar on the left is octagonal while the rest are suare-shaped. The courtyards on the right and at the centre have gables and the left one has a diagonal vault. The vaults are connected to the walls by arches while the gable on the right is erected on short supports. In the middle one, in front of the praying niche, there is a dome covered with lead on the outside.

The way the vaults are tied in to the dome is a good example of transition from roofs to vaults and from vaults to domes. The roof is covered with pleated tiles.

FIRUZBEY MOSQUE

It is in the central Firuzpaşa district and was built in 1394 (H.787) by Hodja Firuz Beg. It is in reverse “T” shape and has a courtyard for congregation. There are medresse rooms in the garden. Its popular name is Kurşunlu Mosque as the dome is covered with lead. The entrance portal, the courtyard for congregation, the arches, and the space between the arches, the praying niche and the pulpit all exhibit very refined stone masonry.

Red and white stones are used at the entrance portal and above the windows. The pulpit is ornamented with decoration and prayers from the Koran, written in refined calligraphy in Arabic alphabet. On both sides there are revolving columns. The dome is decorated with chisel work.

BELEN MOSQUE

Assumed to be built in the 14th century, it is on the Hısarbaşı hill in the centre of the town. It resembles the Ulu Mosque. Two rows of three pillars each divide the three courtyards. the main entrance is from the north and there is a smaller entrance in the west. The walls are made of bricks and stone, and it has a wooden roof. The minaret was built in 1811 by Ömer Agha, son of Abdülfettah. AGHA MOSQUE It was built in 1737 in Hacıaptı district by Abdulaziz Agha.

It is rectangular in shape. With the courtyard for congregation and pleated roof, it is simple in design. The minaret was built in 1885, by order of Lady Refia, mother of Mehmet Beg, descendant of Abdulaziz Agha. The medresse, built at the same time, is no longer in existence.

THE MUSEUM OF MILAS

The Museum of Milas was originally inaugurated in 1983 by the transfer of some objects from the Underwater Archaeological Museum of Bodrum, with the approval of the Ministry, as well as by compilation of works of art unearthed in excavations in the vicinity. It was opened for public on 4 April, 1987. In the garden, marble objects found in salvage and foundation excavations and during surface researches are exhibited. In the interior exhibition hall, potteries, glassware, brass and golden objects, marble heads and busts, in chronological order, dating from the Bronze Age to the Byzantine period are presented for public view.

BEÇIN

Beçin is a medieval city situated on the slope of a plateau, rising steeply to a height of 200 meters, 5 km. to the south of Milas. It was founded during the Menteşeoğulları reign and was not a significant centre in the ancient and the Byzantine periods. However, the walls of the Beçin fortress were constructed with reused material from ruins dating back to antique ages. The wall on the right of the interior gate of the fortress is erected on the marble crepis with six steps of a temple. The name of the city is recorded as “Pezona” in medieval Italian sources, as “Barçın” in Turkish and Islamic texts and as “Peçin” in later scriptures. The present-day pronunciation is Beçin. In Evliya Çelebi’s travels during the 17th century, Bevin was a town under the jurisdiction of Milas, with 20 houses built within the fortress. There were warden and 20 guards at the fortress which was then used as a prison.

The Beçin site is comprised of a fortress over a round, steep rock on the slope of the plateau and of a settlement surrounded by a 1.5 m. thick city wall at the south of the fortress. There is a single entrance in the south to the fortress which is surrounded by steep rocky slopes on all the other three sides. The entrance is defended by a high tower and double walls which are partially demolished. Evliya Çelebi mentions a trench of 10 fathoms, which is now filled with earth, and a bridge over the trench with springs.

The hidden stairway leading to the caves in the west of the fortress is also buried underground today. The region was under Turkish jurisdiction in the second half of the 13th century. Menteşe oğulları made Milas their capital at first and then moved the government offices to Beçin which was easier to defend. Beçin remained the capital throughout the rule of Tacettin Ahmet Ghazi. Upon his death, the region was conquered by Beyazid I (the Thunderbolt) when the principal was moved to Balat (Milet). Of the city, the remains of the interior fortress facing the Milas plains, the city walls of the outer fortress and of the buildings at Kepez and Siğmen have persevered to our day.

AHMET GHAZI MEDRESSE AND GRAVE

The medresse, which was built by Ahmet Ghazi in 1375 (H.777), according to the inscription above the gate, is the best preserved building in the city. There is a courtyard, 9.10 x 12.50 m. in dimension, surrounded by ten rooms. Entrance is through the monumental gate in the south of an exedra built in Gothic style. Opposite the gate is the grave of AHMET Ghazi, covered with a high dome. The grave opens to the courtyard of the medresse by a pointed arch, recalling Gothic architecture. On the outer corners of the arch, there are two reliefs of lions holding flags. The name of Ahmet Ghazi appears on the right-hand flag.

The small, arched gate in the north opens to the exterior of the medresse. The identity of the second grave, resembling that of Ahmet Ghazi, has not yet been certified. The rooms of the medresse are covered with cradled vaults. They are dark and small.

Each room has a fireplace, with two or three cupboards. The roofs are covered with earth and made into porches. On both sides, corridors and stairways lead up to the porches. Above the large rooms both on the left and on the right, there were rooms on the second floor which are now extinct. The dome of the grave is covered with tiles. The façade of the medresse, the eastern wall, 6 meters of the western wall, the interior walls facing the courtyard, the corridors and the interior of the gates are paved with sandstones.

Half of the western wall on the north and the rooms are neither paved nor plastered. At a later date, next to the outer door of the room in the east, a small, arched fountain was constructed with two lion reliefs on the panel. The square marble in the middle of the courtyard indicates the presence of a fountain for ablution.

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OTHER BUILDINGS WITHIN THE CITY

The city walls, enforced with two round towers on the east and the west, surround quite a wide terrain. The second preserved building within the walls is the large Public Bath located between the fortress and the Ahmet Ghazi Mosque. Evliya Çelebi mentions having witnessed the construction of Orhan Beg Mosque, built by Ibni Batuta in the 14th century. The mosque is completely demolished, but the foundations and the marble gate are standing. Of the two square tombs to the east of this mosque, the dome of one has collapsed. Further east, there is a building in quite good shape called Kızılhan, with a cradle vault on the first floor, the upper story covered with three domes and the stairway on the outside facing west.

BUILDINGS OUTSIDE THE CITY WALLS

Outside the city walls, in the south, there is a large courtyard (Emir Havlusu) used as a market place at the time; the Karapaşa Caravanserai covered with three cradle vaults, and a smaller vaulted building which is thought to be another caravanserai. The necropolis is immediately to the east of the city walls and extends through the maquis to the Kepez district which is separated from the city by a small river called Kara Ahmet. The marble grave stones, some of which were carted to the Ahmet Ghazi Medresse, represent distinguished samples of the Turkish art of the 14th and 15th centuries. At the Kepez district, 15 minutes to the east of the city walls, there is a group of buildings. Of these, the Yelli Mosque is a small one with a single dome whose courtyard for congregation is covered with two diagonal vaults. To the west, a public bath with a collapsed roof, and, in the east, a demolished medresse resembling that of Ahmet Ghazi, and, at a little distance a marble pond, 7.75×10.30 m. in size, catch the eye.

The Beçin excavations were started by Prof. Dr. Oluş ARIK in the 1970 and since 1995 are carried out by the Directorate of the Milas Museum in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Rahmi Hüseyin ÜNAL and his team. EUROMOS Euromos is located on the Izmir highway, 10 km. from Milas, and was the most important city in the ancient times after Mylasa. The name of the city was ‘Cyramos’ or ‘Hyramos’ in the 5th century B.C. The Greek form “Euromos” meaning “strong” is likely to be adopted as the policy of Hellenization by Mausolus. From an inscription we learn that Euromus had a disagreement with its northern neighbour Heracleia, which raided the territory of Euromus and carried off sacred and private property.

A Euroman citizen who had suffered in this way applied to the authorities in Mylasa, who thereupon sent an ambassador to Herecleia to solve the dispute. Although the city is in ruins, the Temple of Zeus at Euromus is among the half dozen best preserved monuments in Asia. It is in the Corinthian order and dates from the second century A.D. It has 6 columns on architrave and 9 columns on the sides.

The three columns on the north side and the one at the south-western corner are unfluted, probably because the decoration work was left unfinished. Most of the columns facing north and west have panels with a dedicatory inscription. Five were presented by physican and magistrate Menecrates and his daughter Tryphaena, and seven by Leo Quintos, another magistrate. The large but quite demolished theatre is in a recess in the hillside a little above the plain. Five rows of seats are best preserved in the north.

The agora on the flat ground is surrounded by a stoa with some of the columns still standing. Further west there is another stoa.On one of its pillars there is a long inscription recording the financial assistance of a certain Callisthenes to the city and his alliance with Iassos. At and around the Temple of Zeus, excavation and restoration work was started by Prof. Dr. Ümit SERDAR OĞLU in the 1970s but were not continued.

LABRANDA

Labranda, which was the sanctuary for Zeus Labrandos, is 14 km. north-west of Milas. The earliest ruins are from the 6th century B.C. In 6th and 5th centuries, the sanctuary was a small, artificially levelled plain used as the terrace of the temple. In 497 a battle took place in the sanctuary and the Carian army, together with its Miletian allies, was defeated by the Persians. The 4th century B.C. is when the temple gained prominence. During the reign of Mausolus (377-352) and Idrieus (351-344) as satraps, its appearance was enhanced. In 355, during an annual sacrificial feast, Mausolus was saved from an assassination attempt at the last minute.

To celebrate his narrow escape, a number of artificial terraces, a small Doric Building, a monumental stairway and two large halls of feast (Androns), a building with a porch (Oikoi), a stoa and a colonnated Temple of Zeus were erected. Upon the death of Idrieus in 344, all the constructional work ceased. Following a great fire in the 4th century B.C., the sanctuary was no longer used as a centre of cult. From Mylasa, an 8 m. wide Sacred Way leads to the sanctuary in Labranda. The pavements of this road are still discernible. There are two entrance gates to the courtyard. The one named the Doric building is an irregular rectangle and is immediately to the east of the southern propylon.

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It faces north; has four columns with a front yard and a marble façade, and is Doric in style. During the Roman period, this building was added to the bath complex. The propylon displays refined masonry and is surrounded by a wall opening to long rooms by four wide passageways. The rooms are either for storage of goods or for treasury. It is part of a large complex. This building joins another one which is higher in the east, with four square rooms and a porch used for sacred feasts. A stairway, 12 m. wide, reaches the terrace in the centre. Here the Andron of Mausolus (Andron B) stands. This is the first building constructed by the descendants of Hecatomnos. With the square cella and the wide, rectangular niche, it resembles a temple.

In this niche, the statues of Mausolos, his wife and sister Artemisia and perhaps Zeus may have been standing. The Temple of Zeus on the uppermost terrace faces east. Its first phase is dated to the 4th century B.C. In the second phase, a row of columns, 6 in front and 8 on the sides, as well as a second building behind the cella (Opisthodomos) were added to align with the dimensions of the cella. The colonnaded temple was sanctified by Idrieus. Its details and general appearance resemble the Temple of Athena in Priene, which indicates that both were built by architect Pytheos. The Andron of Idrieus (Andron A) is in the south-west of this temple.

It is the best preserved building in the settlement. The south wall is 7.9 m. high from the ground. Its plan is similar to that of the Andron of Mausolus. Within the cella, traces are visible of low, plastered stone seats which were used during the sacred feasts. In the niche on the back wall, statues of Idrieus, his sister and wife Ada and Zeus stood. Oikoi is made up of two rectangular rooms of varying sizes behind the porch with four Doric columns, between the antes.

The roof of this building is a combination of Doric and Ionian styles. It may have been used both as an archive building of the sanctuary and as offices for the priests and for sacred feasts. There is a steep climb to the north of sanctuary. On the southern slope there is a tomb, 15 m. in length above the temple. The grave chamber and the entrance are vaulted. The granite roof is in Doric style. Two hundred meters to the west of the sanctuary, there is a stadium with a supporting wall on the back. At each end, the departure and the arrival signposts in stone are still discernible.

During the five-day festivals at the sanctuary, races must have been organized at this spot. The excavations at Labranda were started in 1948 by A.W. Persson from the Uppsala University in Sweden and are still under way, presided by P. Hellström.

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HERACLEIA

The antique city of Heracleia may be reached by a road branching off at Çamiçi district on the Milas-Söke highway.The city is in the Kapkırı village and is 39 km. from Milas. In the antique period the city reached out to the Latmos Bay which was an extension of the Aegean Sea. However, due to alluvions from the Meander River, the bay is the Bafa Lake today. The city is named after the famous epic hero, Heraclitos. It was called Latmos in the 8th century B.C. and was seized by the Carian satrap Mausolus, during the Persian reign. It fell into the hands of Alexander during his Asian campaign and was later dominated by Seleucos.

Being cut off from the sea in the first century B.C., Heracleia lost some of its prominence. However, due to its inaccessibility, it became a hiding place for Christian hermits. The antique city, situated on a very rough and rocky terrain, was surrounded by city walls 6.5 km. long, supported by 65 towers. The walls, made of smooth rectangular and square stones, were built during the Hellenistic period. Heracleia, based on the city plan of Hippodoamos, is a good example of gridiron patches and streets vertically cris-crossing one another.

The Temple of Athena on the bluff behind the harbour is one of the best preserved buildings on the site. It is in Antis style with two Hellenistic columns. The agora to the east of the temple is on two levels, with only the first level still standing. The shops and the inns in the agora are still discernible. The walls on the south are in good masonry. They are rectangular, surrounded by porticos. The U-shaped building on the east of the agora is the bouleterion. The north-eastern walls are quite intact. The theatre is in the north-east of the city. The walls of the stagebuilding and the seats in the first cavea are discernible. Along the road to the shore and to the island, the apsidal cella and the pronao of the Endymion sanctuary can be viewed. According to mythology, Selene, the Moon Goddess, fell in love with the handsome shepherd on the Latmos Mountain and put him to eternal sleep.

On the islands in the Bafa Lake and among the rocks on Latmos Mountain, there are various monasteries. The priests arriving from the Sina peninsula and Greece founded the first monastery here in the 7th century A.D. Thirteen monasteries have been built in this area, the most famous ones being Yediler, Stylos, Soteros, Menet Island, İkizce Islands, Kahve Asar Island. During the Byzantine period, a tower was built along the Bafa Lake to protect the monasteries. In addition to the monasteries, there are numerous caves or trial units around where the monks led their solitary lives. Those closer to the monasteries are decorated with rich frescos. The designs on the walls and the ceilings depict scenes from the life of Christ, Virgin Mary and various saintsThe surface research on the Heracleia antique city is carried out annually by German scientist Annelisa Pesclow.

IASSOS

Iassos is located on a peninsula, surrounded by sea on three sides, within the Kıyıkışlacık village, 28 km. from Milas. According to mythology, it was set up by Pelopolonnesians arriving from Argos, in the 5th century B.C. and was named after Iassos, heading the colonizers. The city’s name does not appear in the records prior to the beginning of this century. The city was originally founded or an island which, with the filling up of the isthmus, became a peninsula. The major buildings of the city are located on the peninsula. The large city walls, aqueducts, necropolis and the building called the fish market are outside the walls.

The excavations revealed that the earliest settlement in Iassos date back to the end of 3000 B.C. Once a musician visiting the city gave a recital at the theatre. During the concert, a bell rang, announcing the opening of the fish market. Everybody rose up and departed except for an old man cupping his ear with his hand. The musician approached him and said, “Thank you for appreciating me and my music; for everyone else rushed out when they heard the bell “. ” what?” shouted the old man, ” Did the bell ring ?” ” Yes, why?”. ” By your leave, sir” said the old man and ran out. Strabo relates this story to emphasize how essential the sea food was in Iassos, as the soil was barren and bore no fruit.

When Alexander besieged Miletos in 334, Iassos donated a ship to the Persian navy which came to their aid. Ten years later, in Ecbatana, an Iasian named Gorgos was the armoury commander of Alexander. Another Iasian favoured by Alexander was a boy who had the curious fortune of being loved by a dolphin. It was a tradition in Iassos to bathe in the sea after exercising at the gymnasium. A dolphin would wade ashore, carry this boy away on its back and then return him safely. Alexander, hearing of this, summoned the boy to Babylon and made him a priest to Poseidon, the Sea God. The Iasians were highly influenced by this tale and in their mints of the third century B.C., the coinage shows a boy swimming beside a dolphin, with an arm over its back. Since 1960, an Italian archaeological team has been running regular excavations at the Iassos antique city.

Numerous objects have been unearthed in the course of this work. An arched gate opens up to the agora. On all four sides of the agora are porticos built during the Roman period. The bouleterion is in the south-west of the agora. The building used by the city council is circular, with an orchestra and the rows of seats are divided into three sections with four stairways. Six vaults support the seats. At the eastern corner, there is a rectangular building, 17×13 m. in dimension, with columns in the front, which has been identified as Caesareon. The ruins unearthed within the agora date back to the middle of the Bronze Age.

The stoas around the agora were built in 130 B.C. according to inscriptions. On the vast plain in the south-western corner of the agora, there is the Temple of Artemis Astias. The theatre is on the north-eastern slope of an elevation in the centre of the city. The façade of the state building is approximately 61 m. long. The original theatre was built during the Hellenistic times and the repairs and additions made during the Roman period are discernible. The medieval tower is on the highest point in the centre of the town.

It is almost a square with walls of about 2 meters in thickness. There is also a water cistern within. The harbour is between the peninsula and the mainland, approximately 850 meters in length. The tower at the mouth of the harbour is part of the wave breakers built in medieval times. The tower facing this is demolished. A chain was stretched across these two towers to prevent entrance into the harbour of undesirable vessels. There are two city walls in Iassos, the first one protecting the city and known as the big city wall, and the other in the north-west. The second wall was for regional defence. It is approximately 3.5 km. long and made of local blocks. Its height is variable at places, at an average of 3.5 m., supported by regular columns.Tombs are everywhere in the city. The agora was used as a necropolis in the Archaic age. To the west of the Roman necropolis, on the slopes, there are rock and house tombs. The most famous tomb is the monument from the Roman period in the fish market.

In the middle of a square courtyard, surrounded by porticos, on a high podium, a Corinthian mausoleum with four columns in the front rises up. It has a wide pronaos in the front. The outside walls are decorated with triflutes and plastered antes. A step on the east leads to a shallow cella. The grave chamber is supported by low columns. A small bench for the bones and niches are carved into the rocky walls. The long portico is made up of plastered columns. The vaulted roof on the western part is still standing.

The restoration of the mausoleum in the Fish Market was started towards the end of 1993, by funds allocated by the General Directorate of Rotating Capital Operations of the Ministry of Culture, as a result of which the architectural objects and other works of art unearthed by the Italian team in Iassos were catalogued and the galleries within the mausoleum were opened to the public on 11 August, 1995, as the Fish Market Open-Air Museum. The excavations at Iassos were started in 1960 by an Italian archaeological team headed by Prof. Dr. Doro Levi, and are presently carried out by Dr. Fede Berti.

ANTIQUE SETTLEMENTS NOT YET CATALOGUED AT MILAS

Within the boundaries of the Milas town, there are numerous antique settlements which have been established and recorded but, as yet, not catalogued.

THE TEMPLE OF SINURI

There is a temple on the mountains at Yukarı KalınaGıl village, 14 km. south of Milas. It was dedicated to a Carian deity, Sinuri. As in Labranda, there is a monumental tomb near the temple, probably belonging to the family of a priest.

HYDAI

It is a small city within the DamlıboGaz village, at the foot of  Karaoğlan Mountain. The name of the city is derived from the Greek word “Hydro”, meaning water. There is a little information about the history of Heyday. On a coin from the 2nd century B.C., a bearded river deity, representing the Sark Stream, is depicted, leaning against a pitcher, holding a reed in his hand, with three fish floating in the water flowing from the pitcher.

ARGYLE

Argyle is on top of a hill with double summits, at the eastern tip of the peninsula on the narrow and deep bay of the Gollum harbour. According to the epic related in Byzantines by Stephanos, Argyle was founded by the Greek mythological hero, Bellerophon. When his famous winged-horse Pegasus kicked and killed Bargylos, the hero named the city Bargylia to commemorate his friend. The hero of this epic are depicted on the coins minted here during the first century B.C., with Pegasus in flight and Bellerophon riding him.

HYDISOS

The city is on the hill with double summits, covered with pine trees, at Karacahisar village, 29 km. south of Milas. The principal deity of the city, Zeus Areios, the War God, is illustrated on the coins as a bust with a beard and a helmet, or standing, armed to the teeth.

CERAMOS

The city is located within the Ören district, 45 km. south of Milas. The deity of Ceramos was a youngster holding a double-faced axe in his hand. On the coins, he is presented standing half naked. In some coins of the Roman Empire, he is depicted with Zeus Chrysaoreus of neighbouring cities of Stratoniceia and Coinon Chrysaoris . The Arceological Museum of Marmaris is located at the Fortress. Therefore, in connection with the museum, the history of the fortress must take precedence.

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People have resided in the place of Greece for centuries. Two excellent societies designed in the place during the Darkish Age (about 3000-1100 B.C.). One was on the isle of The isle. It is known as the Minoan lifestyle after the renowned Master Minos. The other was on the Historical greek landmass. It is known as the Mycenaean lifestyle after the town of Mycenae. The Mycenaean lifestyle prospered a little bit later than the Minoan and was significantly affected by it.

At the end of the Darkish Age, the Mycenaean lifestyle vanished. Many of the old sites were used down or discontinued. New negotiations were established. For several century the place joined what has been known as the Dark Age groups. Individuals ongoing to live in the place, but in lesser, separated groups. Coloured ceramic, a common art way of ancient Greece, stayed designed. Few components of now endure because they were designed of wooden and mud stone.

The Geometrical Interval (900-700 B.C.)

After about 900 B.C., a revival took place. Little negotiations matured into places. Sanctuaries (places of worship) were established. And the ones started to create art in excellent amounts once again throughout the place.

In ceramic artwork, a new style of style designed. It was based on geometric designs–triangles, facts, and straight and set at an angle collections. Individual results were presented by the 700′s B.C. They first showed up on huge containers used as funeral ancient monuments. These early, basic outline results noticeable the first interpretation of men and women in Historical greek art. As performers started to represent the organic shapes of the system, the angular results were progressively changed with more spherical and genuine types.

Architecture during now still contains small components of wooden or mud stone. Sculpture was mainly small options.

The Orientalizing Interval (700-600 B.C.)

Beginning about 700 B.C., Historical greek art was significantly affected by art from The red sea and other innovative societies in the Near Southern (part of european Japan, which was once known as the Orient). In a incredibly short period of your energy and energy and effort, the geometric style of container artwork was changed by a more vivid, more verbal style as performers tried Southern images. These foreign impacts are particularly obvious in art created in the town of Corinth. Potters there designed vibrant attractive accents designed with pet figures—such as owls or roaring lions—as well as rosettes and other Southern styles.

The Historical Interval (600-480 B.C.)

It was during the Historical period that Historical greek art and framework accomplished its unique style. In some ways this style was a variety of the old geometric style and the more recent impacts from the Southern.

Architecture

After about 600 B.C., the Greeks started developing wats to recognition their gods. Historical greek wats were designed in three different styles, or orders: Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. Each of these styles is best determined by the unique style of its content and richesse (the designed covers of the columns).

The Doric purchase was designed by the Dorian communities on the Historical greek landmass. It had a simple, durable, and relatively undecorated style. As opposed to the other purchases, Doric content had no base. The Ionic purchase was designed by the Ionian Greeks living along the shore of Japan Slight (present-day Turkey). It was more sensitive and attractive than the Doric purchase. And it had more time and more slimmer content that were often lead with a control or scroll-shaped capital. The Corinthian purchase designed in the town of Corinth during the traditional period, well after the Doric and Ionic styles. It is a difference of the Ionic. But its richesse have designed acanthus simply leaves instead of scrolls.

Inside the Historical greek forehead was a lesser, free standing framework known as a cella. The cella was ornamented by a row of content (a colonnade). In the cella was a statue of the god to whom the particular forehead was devoted.

Sculpture

The Historical period saw a fast development in the reflection of a persons determine. At the start of the, performers started to define life-sized and bigger results of men and women for use in sanctuaries and severe ancient monuments. These results had firm erect positions. Men were typically shown unclothed. Their hands were close to their factors and one leg was prolonged a little bit forward in a style implemented from Cotton sculpture. Women were dolled up in ornately covered clothing. Like all Historical greek sculpture, the sculptures were painted with many colours.

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By the end of the, sculpture had become much more genuine. Creates were less firm and more organic. The drapery on women results better demonstrated the shape of the actual human body. Figures were also more idealized. This means they were used to illustrate the perfect man or woman type.

Painting

Although the art of walls artwork was well-known in ancient Greece, few illustrations remain these days. However, many illustrations of container artwork have live through. By the Historical period the interpretation of human and pet results had achieved new levels.

Two different methods were used for container artwork presently. The first is known as black-figure artwork. It was designed in Corinth in the 600′s B.C. Figures were painted with fluid clay-based, which turned a shiny dark-colored when shot in a special range known as a kiln. The dark-colored silhouettes were then given information by incising, or damaging, collections through them to expose the red clay-based human body of the container. Details were outlined by bright or red colour.

About 530 B.C., a new strategy, red-figure artwork, changed this shade program. Skills were painted dark-colored and the figures–more organic and natural than those in black-figure painting–were left in huge of the clay-based. Details were added with watered down dark-colored colour. Additional colours were hardly ever used. Moments from myth and, later, everyday human lifestyle were well-known. Many attractive accents were finalized, displaying a satisfaction in workmanship.

On other attractive accents, the whole qualifications was sometimes painted an cream color bright. The results separated itself more specifically on this bright qualifications. Details were outlined by the use of red, blue, yellow-colored, or brownish. These white-ground attractive accents are less available than black- or red-figured ones.

The Classical Interval (480-323 B.C.)

Scholars time frame the start of the traditional period with the intrusion of Greece by the Napoleons and its end with the loss of life of Alexander the Great. During the second half of the 400′s B.C., Athens, which had surfaced as the most highly effective Historical greek city-state, was the heart of Historical greek art. Even after its beat by the town of Sparta in the Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.), Athens’ creative success ongoing to effect Historical greek art.

Architecture

The Parthenon was designed between 447 and 432 B.C. on the remains of an previously forehead demolished by the Napoleons. It is considered the biggest example of the Doric purchase. Bigger the standard forehead, it actions 228 toes (70 meters) lengthy and 1011/2 toes (31 meters) huge. It has eight content across the top side and rear, and 17 down each side. The Parthenon was designed entirely of stone. It was designed with spectacular art types representing various combat, a procession of Athenians praising the Historical greek goddess Athena, and scenes from Athena’s lifestyle. Although now a damage, the Parthenon still appears these days, taking over Athens’ Acropolis (the maximum point of the city). (For more information on the Parthenon, see the Wonder Question, What are the Elgin Marbles? associated with this article.)

The Erechtheum was designed on the Acropolis about 20 decades after the Parthenon. It has the sleek ratios and attractive information common of the Ionic purchase. As opposed to most other wats, the Erechtheum has verandas increasing from both factors. One of the verandas is the well-known Patio of the Maidens. It has content in the types of women results.

Another significant Doric forehead is the forehead of Apollo at Bassae. Built between 420 and 400 B.C., its internal contains the very first known Corinthian content. After the 400′s B.C., designers ongoing to perform with the Doric and Ionic purchases. But they maintained to add artwork and try things out further with mixing the purchases in a single developing.

Among the other structural types designed by the Greeks during now were the stoa and the cinema. The stoa was a lengthy covered lounge or viewpoint that had a strong returning walls and a colonnade at the top side. The framework was used as a shopping mall, a law trial, or simply a refuge from the weather. Stoas were also used to include areas, such as marketplaces. Cinemas were a significant aspect of every Historical greek town. They were usually located against a mountain where the viewers could sit to watch the shows. Performances were devoted to Dionysus, the god of wine.

Sculpture

Few unique art types of the traditional period endure. Much of what is known about the excellent performers of this age comes from duplicates designed by the Romans. The Romans also registered the brands of many Historical greek performers in their documents.

The growing interest in authenticity, as well as in the idealization of the system, can be seen in a well-known early traditional sculpture known as the Discus-Thrower. It was designed about 450 B.C. by Myron of Thebes. But it is known these days only from a Roman duplicate. The sportsman is found in mid-movement, at the immediate he is about to hurl the discus. Another well-known example is the Charioteer (about 470 B.C.). This life-size bronze statue was discovered at the excellent refuge of Apollo at Delphi. Darkish was a favorite material from which to create sculptures as a result of 400′s B.C. However, very few huge bronze sculptures have live through because they were dissolved down lengthy ago to create useful things, such as spearheads.

Classical sculpture actually peaked after the heart of the 400′s. Two of the biggest performers of now were Phidias and Polyclitus. Phidias was known for his art types of the gods. He was in charge of the art types designed for the Parthenon. Two heavy gold-and-ivory sculptures of Zeus and Athena were his works of art. Both are now known only from information. Polyclitus specialised in sculptures of sportsmen. His performs, such as the Spearbearer, strongly established the perfect dimensions and ratios of the entire human body. The present of this determine, with one leg attracted returning and the weight of the entire human body moved onto the other leg, stayed used throughout the history of art.

Relief sculpture–sculpture designed to stand out from a smooth background–often designed wats. The lengthy horizontally companies known as friezes that ran above Ionic content often presented comfort art types of human and pet results. An example is the frieze that operates along the external top of the Parthenon’s cella.

Between 400 and 323, the effect of Athens on Historical greek art dropped. A huge range of different types of styles surfaced. The excellent specialist Praxiteles presented a soft, simple style. In his Hermes and the Baby Dionysus (about 340 B.C.), he shows the gods in elegant human type with comfortable, inclined poses. In comparison, another specialist, Scopas, communicated strong feelings by his use of warming up, active poses. A third specialist, Lysippus, presented a new system of ratios for a persons type. He designed the head lesser and the hands or legs more time. Lysippus was the trial specialist for Alexander the Great.

Painting

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Except for container artwork, very little artwork has live through from the traditional period. Fictional performs of time note the brands of individual artists as well as their use of authenticity, shade, covering, and viewpoint. (Perspective is the strategy of displaying the impression of distance on the smooth working surface of a painting). The perform of a container specialist of the mid-400′s B.C. known only as the Niobid Painter provides proof of some of these methods. The Niobid Painter did not organize his results in a row, as was common in red-figure container artwork. Instead, he organized them on different levels and in different sizes to show viewpoint. During now, red-figure artwork became more attractive as more shade and even gilding (coating with gold) was used. By about 320 B.C. red-figure container artwork had passed away out in Athens. Simpler non-figured styles took its place.

Mosaics

As early as the 500′s B.C., the Greeks started creating mosaics. Mosaics are images established by resting small shaded rocks, pieces of stone, or cup in concrete. During the first mosaics, non shaded documents stream rocks were set into concrete surfaces to illustrate creatures, blossoms, or scenes from myth. The mosaics provided as attractive flooring in essential rooms of a house.

The Hellenistic Interval (323-146 B.C.)

The period between the loss of life of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. and Rome’s cure of Greece in 146 B.C. is known as the Hellenistic period. During now Historical greek lifestyle ongoing to effect the many non-Greek people mastered by Alexander throughout the Middle Southern. The Roman Empire later propagate Greece’s effect throughout most of European countries and into south African-american.

Architecture

Architects working in many parts of the Historical greek world ongoing to use all three purchases, particularly the Corinthian. The Corinthian purchase was used as the basis for a similar style used throughout the Roman Empire. Architects also started mixing different styles of style and changing the ratios of various elements in components. With the rise of excellent places, city framework prospered. And the innovation of the stone posture provided new opportunities of development.

Sculpture

Hellenistic sculpture demonstrated the huge range and variety of Hellenistic community. Sculpture was still used for dedications and severe ancient monuments. But art was also used as style and propaganda (created to force others). Although the previously traditional styles were still somewhat highly effective, Hellenistic sculpture shown not only younger grownups in optimum physical type but also children and the very old, often in huge authenticity surrounding on melodrama. For example, one sculpture shows a fighter placed on a stone, his face and human body genuinely struggling. Perhaps the most unique Hellenistic sculpture comes from small kingdom of Pergamon, on the shore of modern-day Chicken. Here the excellent Church of Zeus was constructed between 200 and 100 B.C. It remember the success of the Pergamenes against an entering group of Gauls (a Celtic people from the place of France). A comfort frieze around the altar shows a fight of gods and leaders. It indicates that the beat of the Gauls had the range and dilemma of a renowned fight.

Two of the most well-known art types of ancient Greece time frame from about now. The Venus de Milo, or the Aphrodite of Melos, was designed from stone by an mysterious specialist. The statue is losing its hands. But it is an excellent example of the idealization of a persons type. The Winged Victory of Samothrace is also by an mysterious specialist. It represents the Historical greek goddess Nike standing on the prow of a send with her pizza propagate huge and her clothing streaming in the wind.

Painting

Unlike artwork from previously times, some unique Historical greek artwork from the Hellenistic period have live through to the past few decades. They are mainly discovered in the tombs of Macedonians (people from Macedon, a place in south Greece). The complex structure and the use of colours and viewpoint discovered in these performs indicate that walls artwork created in ancient Greece presently were of top quality.

Mosaics

Methods of making mosaics enhanced during the Hellenistic period. Instead of rocks, small pieces of cut stone or cup were used and set in more complex styles. A well-known Hellenistic variety discovered in the Roman town of Pompeii represents Alexander the Great major the Macedonians against the Napoleons. This and other mosaics may have been duplicates of Hellenistic artwork. Like the artwork, they were vibrant and complex performs of art.

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Hellenic Greece is the historical world of Hellas in what is encased landmass Greece with close by destinations in the Aegean Sea, the european shore of Chicken (known as Ionia), the southeast part of Tuscany and Sicily (known as Magna Graecia), and by the overdue 300s B.C., The red sea, Syria, and other Near Southern areas.

Ancient Greek art and structure has long lasting effect with its simpleness and reasonableness on the record of Western and art. Greeks mentioned many of long lasting designs, behaviour, and kinds of Western lifestyle. Ancient greek performers first founded mimesis (imitation of nature) as a primary concept for art. The unclothed personal determine in Ancient greek art shows a thinking that “Man is the evaluate of all things”. Another Ancient Greek history that the Western has passed down is structure. Many of the architectural components, attractive components, and developing kinds that were founded in Ancient Greece are still used in structure these days.

The origins of Ancient greek lifestyle lie in Mycenaean lifestyle. Mycenaeans designed simple homes of a type that the Greeks ongoing to develop long after. And Mycenaean classes founded a custom of coloured ceramic that ongoing without disruption, though with excellent changes, into later times. In short, much of Mycenaean lifestyle taken over into later Ancient greek group.After the failure of Mycenae around 1100 BC, the Ancient greek places dropped into decrease and this was followed by a interval of conflicts and invasions, known as the Darkish Age groups.

The Darkish Ages (1100 – 750 B.C.)

This is known as the interval between the drop of the Mycenean world and the readoption of composing in the 9th or 7th millennium B.C. After the Virus Wars the Mycenaeans went through a interval of municipal war and invasions. Greece joined a interval of comparative impoverishment, depopulation, and social solitude. The art of composing was missing for most of that interval. The nation was poor and a group known as the Dorians occupied from the northern and propagate down free airline shore.
During the Darkish Age, Greeks resolved Ionia. Merchants in Athens designed an summary design of coloured ceramic known as protogeometric (meaning “first geometric”). The accurate of the artwork on this ceramic predict the personality of later Ancient greek art. Around 800 B.C., the Hellenic world started to happen. The last 2 decades of the Darkish Age, are known as the Geometrical interval. That represents a mainly summary design of ceramic design of time. The Greeks probably tailored Phoenician abc as well, (around 800 B.C).
During most of its historical record, Greece was a disunited area of propagate city-states, and conflicts between the city-states probably first took place by the end of the 8th millennium B.C. The 8th millennium also saw Ancient greek development into the southeast part of Tuscany and Sicily, where city-states from the Ancient greek landmass founded their first cities.

• Ancient greek Art – Beginning Ancient Art (1200 BC to 600 BC )
• Ancient Ancient greek Cultures – The Ancient greek Darkish Ages

The Ancient Period (750-500 B.C.)

The interval from 750 B.C. to 480 B.C. is known as the archaic interval. After about 750 B.C. historical Ancient greek performers significantly came into get in touch with with thoughts and designs from outside of Greece. In the 7th and 6th decades many places came to be decided as democracies. The best known of these is the Athenian democracy. Ancient greek colonization of Southern Tuscany and Sicily starts.

By 6th millennium B.C. the Ancient greek world provides images in many aspects different from that of the Homeric Age. This is the interval when massive rock statue, container artwork and other improvements started to indicate Ancient greek thoughts. Monumental developing applications became part of the competitors, as each group attempt to identify itself as culturally excellent. In this interval, kouros and kore sculptures were designed. These stylized results of youthful men and maidens communicate the beginning of a particularly Ancient greek creative passion – the idealization of the person determine. The art of container artwork obtained a level of creative and specialized quality. A risk to Greece designed in the Southern. Persia prolonged into Ionia and to the rim of the Aegean Sea. The Nearby Wars, between Persia and Sparta, smashed out as a result of 5th millennium, and led to success for Athens and the Greeks.

• The Ancient Period
• Ancient Ancient greek Sculpture
• Ancient Greece: Ancient interval (700 B.C. to 480 B.C.)

The Traditional Period (480-338 B.C.)

Traditional interval of historical Ancient greek record is set between 480 B.C., when the Greeks started to come into issue with australia of Persia to the east and 338 B.C., when John p II of Macedonia with son Alexander overcome the Greeks.

Athens founded an empire of its own after the Nearby Wars, and competitors between Athens and the city-state of Sparta taken over the record of 5th-century Greece. The interval of classical art started in Greece about the center of the 5th millennium BC. By that period, many of the problems that confronted performers as a result of archaic interval had been resolved.

Ancient greek artists had discovered to signify the body system normally and quickly, in activity or at relax. They were representing gods and their best art kinds obtained almost godlike efficiency in their relaxed, requested elegance.

The performs of the excellent Ancient greek artists have vanished absolutely, and we know only what historical authors tell us about them. Luckily we have many illustrations of Ancient greek attractive accents, safeguarded in tombs or discovered by archaeologists in other websites. The designs on these attractive accents give us some concept of Ancient greek artwork. They are illustrations of the amazing sensation for type and line that made the Greeks better in the area of statue.

• Ancient greek Art – Traditional Period (600 to 350 B.C.)

The Hellenistic Period  (338-31 B.C.)

From 334 to 323 B.C., Alexander the Great prolonged his dad’s empire into Japan Slight (now Turkey), Syria, The red sea, Persia, Afghanistan, and as far as Indian. Hellenic world obtained the optimum of its power during the 5th millennium BC.

The regular periodization used is to see the loss of life of Alexander the Great in 323 BC as specific the Hellenic interval from the Hellenistic. This symbolizes the switch from a lifestyle covered with cultural Greeks, to a lifestyle covered with Greek-speakers of whatever race, and from the governmental popularity of the city-state to that of bigger monarchies.
The empire of Alexander the Great did not endure his loss of life in 323. After he passed away, empire was separated into a number of Hellenistic (‘Greek-like’) kingdoms. In the 2nd millennium B.C. The capital started to put in its effect. The Hellenistic interval led to 31 B.C., when The capital overcome The red sea, the last of the Hellenistic kingdoms.
In the Hellenistic art people desired to signify the inner feelings and information of daily routine instead of the brave elegance. The design modified from godlike comfort to personal sentiment and from the extraordinary to alarmist pathos, using extraordinary creates and theatrical differences of light and colour enjoying over results in high reliefs. One typical of these art kinds was that they revealed excessive movement of discomfort, pressure, outrageous rage, worry, and lose heart. The first Cinemas were designed in the Hellenistic Period. Corinthian content started to be more typical in this interval.

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