Magnesia of the Meander

Magnésie is an archeological site of Turkey and a Greek Cité of Ionie founded towards -530 not far from Pergame. Occupied by the Persian at the 4th century before J-C, it was refondée on another site, the river Méandre, in a place named Leucophrys (literally white Sourcils ), around a sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Artémis, sister twin of Apollon.

Its Plan hippodaméen as several monuments was conceived by the architect and town planner Hermogène. Three excavation campaigns were led there to the 19th century for the museums of Istanbul, Berlin and Louvre. Its large Agora paved of 26.000 m ² surrounded by gantries takes as a starting point Priène.

Ignace d' Antioche refers to the city in the Lettre with Magnesian the.

Religious buildings

The large furnace bridge

It is a furnace bridge in form of pi whose model is set up at the time hellenstic, as to Pergame

The temple of Zeus Sosipolis

Built by Hermogène at the beginning of the 2nd century before J-C, it is an ionic temple of style built after a victory of the city over Milet. Opened towards the west, this temple tetrastyle prostyle (4 columns in frontage), presents a pronaos (or hall) and a opisthodome of same dimensions.

The temple of Artémis Leucophryène

It is a temple pseudodiptère of eight columns by fifteen, in the same proportions as the precedent. It presents an open pediment of three quadrangular bays intended to reduce the structure. Its plank, a amazonomachie, one of best is preserved Antiquity.

Sources

Alain Davesne, the plank of the temple of Artémis with Magnésie of the Meander , Erc/Adpf, 1982, ISBN 2865380262
Roland Martin, Greek art , Paris, Delivers Pocket, Pochothèque, 1994

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