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Didyma

Didyma(/ˈdɪdɪmə/;Ancient Greek:Δίδυμα) was anancient Greeksanctuaryon the coast ofIoniain the domain of the famous city ofMiletus.Apollo was the main deity of the sanctuary of Didyma, also calledDidymaion.But it was home to both of thetemplesdedicated to the twinsApolloandArtemis.Other deities were also honoured within the sanctuary. The Didymaion was well renowned in antiquity because of its famedoracle.This oracle of Apollo was situated within what was, and is, one of the world's greatest temples to Apollo. The remains of thisHellenistictemple belong to the best preserved temples ofclassical antiquity.Besides this temple other buildings existed within the sanctuary which have been rediscovered recently; aGreek theatreand the foundations of the above-mentioned Hellenistic temple of Artemis, to name but two.[1]

Didyma
Δίδυμα
The ruins of theTempleofApolloat Didyma
Didyma is located in Turkey
Didyma
Shown within Turkey
LocationDidim,Aydın Province,Turkey
RegionAegean Region
Coordinates37°23′06″N27°15′23″E/ 37.38500°N 27.25639°E/37.38500; 27.25639
TypeSanctuary
History
Founded8th century B.C.E.
AbandonedC.E. 1493
CulturesGreek,Roman
Satellite ofMiletus
Site notes
ConditionRuined
OwnershipPublic
Public accessYes
WebsiteDidim Archaeological Site

Geography

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Map of the area around ancient Didyma

The ruins of Didyma are located a short distance to the northwest of modernDidiminAydın Province,Turkey,whose name is derived from the ruins. It sits on a headland that inantiquityformed the Milesian Peninsula. Didyma was the largest and most significant sanctuary on the territory of the great classical cityMiletus.The natural connection between Miletus and Didyma was by way of ship. But during antiquity the sediments from theMeander Riversilted up the harbour of Miletus. A slow process which eventually meant that the nearbyLatmian Gulfdeveloped from a bay into a lake (todayBafa Gölü).[2]

The linear distance between Miletus and Didyma measures some 16 km. As well as the simple footway there also existed a Sacred Way between the city and its sanctuary which measured some 20 km in distance. This Sacred Way, built in the 6th century BC, was used for festival processions.[3]It touched the harbour of Didyma, situated 3 km northwest of the sanctuary calledPanormos[4](today Mavişehir). Along this route were ritual waystations, and statues of noblemen and noblewomen, as well as animal and mythological beast figures. Some of these statues, dating to the 6th century BC, are now in theBritish Museum(Room 13), excavated by the British archaeologistCharles Thomas Newtonin the 19th century.[5]

Bust of a marblekourosfrom the Sacred Way at Didyma, now in theBritish Museum,550 BC[6]
The lighthouse and the remains of the altar of Poseidon

The Milesians erected an altar dedicated toPoseidon6 km southwest of Didyma. The altar was built in the first half of the 6th century BC at the southwest cape of the Milesian Peninsula. Here was the border betweenIoniaandCaria(according toStrabo[7]). The remains of the altar are still visible and can be easily found due to the location of a nearby modern lighthouse. Architectural members of this famous altar can be seen in thePergamon MuseumofBerlin.[8]

Names

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In Greekdidymameans "twins", but the Greeks who sought a "twin" at Didyma ignored theCarianorigin of the name.[9]The Carians settled this area before the Ionian Greeks. Didyma was first mentioned among the Greeks in theHomeric Hymnto Apollo.[10]But its establishment is supposed to precede literacy and even the Hellenic colonization of Ionia around 1000 BC. In contrary the first archaeological pieces of evidence of Didyma date in the 8th century BC.[11]

Mythic genealogies of the origins of the Branchidae line of priests, designed to capture the origins of Didyma as a Hellenic tradition, date to theHellenisticperiod.[12]Greek and Roman authors laboured to refer the nameDidymato "twin" temples or to temples of the twinsApolloandArtemis,whose own cult center at Didyma had then only recently been established.[13]Also, asWilamowitzsuggested,[14]there may be a connection toCybele Dindymene,the "Cybele ofMount Dindymon".Excavations by German archaeologists have lately uncovered the temple dedicated to Artemis, north of the temple of Apollo.

Apollo was worshipped in nearby Miletus under the name Delphinius (the same name was also used at Delphi).[15]At Didyma, he was worshipped as Didymeus (Διδυμευς). His other names in the area were Philesios (Φιλήσιος),Helios,and Carinus (Καρινος).[16]

History

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A map of the main sanctuaries inClassical Greece
The temple of Apollo southwards.
A bull figure from the site.

It is supposed that until its destruction by the Persians in 494 BC, Didyma's sanctuary was administered by the family of the Branchidae, who claimed descent from aneponymousBranchos,[17]a youth beloved of Apollo.[18]The priestess, seated above the sacred spring, gave utterances that were interpreted by the Branchidae.[19]BothHerodotus[20]and Pausanias[21]dated the origins of the oracle at Didyma before theIonian colonizationof this coast.Clement of Alexandriaquotes Leandrios saying that Cleochus, grandfather of the eponymous founder Miletus, was buried within the temple enclosure of Didyma.[22]

Under the Persian kingDarius,following the navalbattle of Lade,the sanctuary was burned in 494 BC. The Persians carried away the bronze cult statue of Apollo toEcbatana,traditionally attributed toCanachus of Sicyon[23]at the end in the 6th century BC. It was then reported that the oracle spring ceased to flow and the archaic oracle was silenced.[24]Although the sanctuaries of Delphi andEphesuswere swiftly rebuilt, Didyma remained a ruin until the timeAlexander the Greatconquered Miletus and freed it from the Persians in 334 BC. In between a complete break had been rent in the oracles' personnel and tradition, the Branchidae priests marched off to Persian sovereign territory.Callisthenes,a court historian ofAlexander,reported that the spring began once more to flow as Alexander passed through Egypt in 331 BC.[25]

After the liberation from the Persians the Milesians began to build a new temple for Apollo, which was the largest in the Hellenic world after the temple ofHera on the Isle of Samosand thetemple of ArtemisatEphesus.Vitruviusrecorded a tradition that the architects werePaeonius of Ephesus,whom Vitruvius credited with the rebuilding of theTemple of Artemisthere, and Daphnis of Miletus.[26]The dipteral temple of Apollo was surrounded by a double file ofIonic columns.From thepronaoslead two tunnels to the inner court. This was the location of the oracle spring, the sacredlaureltree and thenaiskos- which was itself a small temple. It contained in its own smallcellathe bronzecult imageof Apollo, brought back bySeleucus I NicatorfromPersiaabout 300 BC.[27]

In theHellenistic period,beside Alexander, the kings Seleucus I andSeleucus IIreceived oracles. So in the 3rd century BC the sanctuary of Apollo stood under the influence of theSeleucids,offering very rich donations to Apollo.[28]Didyma suffered a serious setback in 277/76 BC, asGalatianslooted it, coming from theBalkanstoAsia Minor.[29]Plinyreported[30]the worship ofApollo Didymiae,Apollo of Didymus, in Central Asia, transported toSogdianaby a general of Seleucus I and Antiochus I whose inscribed altars there were still to be seen by Pliny's correspondents. Corroborating inscriptions on amphoras were found by I. R. Pichikyan at Dilbergin.[31] Afterwards the kings ofBithyniamade donations to the Didymaion in the 2nd century BC and thePtolemaic kings of Egyptin the first half of 1st century BC.[32]

The annual festival held in Didyma under the auspices of Miletus were called the Didymeia. They are first mentioned at the beginning 3rd century BC. A hundred years later they were made a Panhellenic (open to all Greeks) and a penteteric festival (they took place every four years).[33]In the first half of the 1st century BC the Didymeia were banned because Miletus had supportedMithridates,in his war against the Romans. Furthermore, the sanctuary of Apollo was looted by pirates in 67 BC.[34]AfterPompeyhad reorganized the East of the Roman Empire, the Didymeia were permitted again in 63 BC. Some years laterJulius Caesarexpanded the area underasylumin Didyma. Apparently the Roman emperorCaligulatried to complete the huge temple of Apollo.[35]EmperorTrajanrenewed the Sacred Way between Miletus and Didyma as inscriptions prove in 101 AD.[36]His successorHadrianvisited Miletus and Didyma in 129 AD and acted as Prophet - the highest office in the sanctuary.[37]UnderCommodusthe Didymeia were held as the Commodeia for the cult of the emperor.

In Hellenistic and Roman times the sanctuary of Apollo flourished again. Numerous oracles of Apollo were imparted; some of them are extant in Roman inscriptions. These included inquiries and responses,[38]and literary testimony records Didyma's role as an oracle, with the "grim epilogue"[39]of Apollo's supposed sanction ofDiocletian's persecution of Christians,until the closing of the temples underTheodosius I.This was the end of the oracle.[40]InLate AntiquityDidyma had been the seat of abishop.UnderJustinian Iit was honoured with the title Iustinianopolis. InByzantine timesit changed the name to Hieronda deriving from the Greek name for sanctuary (hieron).[41]This name was used for the village above the temple ruin until the early 20th century (Jeronda) and today the Turks continue to call it Yoran. About 1300 AD theTurksconquered this area ofIonia.Afterwards an earthquake in 1493 destroyed the temple of Apollo and the village was abandoned. About 300 years later the village was resettled by Greeks who used the broken ancient buildings as quarries.[42]

Modern investigations

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Pilaster capital at the Temple of Apollo in Didyma. 2nd century BC.

WhenCiriaco de' Pizzicollivisited the spot in 1446, it seems that the temple was still standing in great part, although the cella had been converted into a fortress by theByzantines,but when the next European visitor, the Englishmen Jeremy Salter and Dr Pickering, arrived in 1673, it had collapsed. TheSociety of Dilettantisent two expeditions to explore the ruins, the first in 1764 underRichard Chandler,the second in 1812 underWilliam Gell.The French "Rothschild Expedition" of 1873 sent a certain amount of architectural sculpture to theLouvre,but no excavation was attempted untilEmmanuel PontremoliandBernard Haussoullierwere sent out by the French Schools of Rome and Athens in 1895. They cleared the eastern façade and partly the northern flank, and discovered inscriptions giving information about other parts.[43]

German excavations made between 1905 and 1913 revealed all of the incomplete Hellenistic temple of Apollo and some carved fragments that belonged to the earlierArchaictemple and to associated statues.[44]After the Second World War theGerman Archaeological Instituterecommenced the investigations at Didyma in 1962. From now on not only the temple of Apollo was explored but the whole area surrounding the temple. In this way some unknown buildings were discovered. The huge district with the Sacred Way north of the temple of Apollo was excavated by Klaus Tuchelt. There he found the supposed sanctuary of Artemis.[45]In 1979 Lothar Haselberger discovered scratched drawings on the walls in the courtyard of the temple of Apollo.[46]A closer examination brought the first ancient blueprint of at least two temples (Apollo and Artemis) back to life.[47]Under Klaus Tuchelt and Peter Schneider the Sacred Way from Miletus was investigated, especially the area outside of the sanctuary of Apollo. They found some of the stations of the procession from Miletus to Didyma.[48]

Map of the sanctuary of Apollo at Didyma.

In 2003 Andreas Furtwaengler took over the directorship of the excavation of Didyma. His explorations were concentrated on the Archaic period of the Apollo temple and its close surroundings.[49]Helga Bumke succeeded him 2013. She began in 2001 the exploration of the disposal site (the so-called Taxiarchis hill) of the debris from the Persian looting in 494 BC.[50]Afterwards, also under her auspices, were the discovery of the Greek theatre in 2010/11 and during 2013 the foundations of the temple of Artemis and of another Hellenistic building, residing under a Byzantine chapel.[51]

Buildings

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Aerial view of the Temple of Apollo.
The sekos of the temple of Apollo.
Temple of Apollo: two Ionic columns of the colonnade.
The view of the columns from above.

The temple of Apollo

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The Hellenistic temple had two predecessors. The first sacred building dedicated to Apollo was erected around 700 BC. It was probably ahekatompedos,which means 100 feet long. The width of this first sekos measured 10 meters. 'Sekos' is Greek for ‘courtyard’; we can therefore deduce that the lategeometrictemple and its successors had never been roofed. The oldest temple of Apollo surrounded the sacred spring and the sacred laurel tree. This spring and tree formed the centre of the sanctuary for more than 1000 years.[52] From the middle of the 6th century BC the Milesians raised a new temple and constructed a new altar for Apollo. Alas, of this temple only the foundations of the sekos wall survived. Though as a lot of late Archaic column fragments were found it was likely a Dipteros, which means the sekos was surrounded by two rows of columns. TheseIoniccolumns were partly ornamented with reliefs like the columns of thetemple of Artemisin Ephesus. In the western half of the sekos the remains of a small temple were found, the so-called Naiskos, which housed the cult statue of Apollo. The sacred spring in its original location was already dry by the 6th c. BC and had diverted its position to the eastern half of the sekos.[53]In front of this late Archaic temple was a circular building erected to surround the altar for Apollo, which, according to Pausanias,[54]was made of blood and ashes of the sacrificed animals. This circular building with the conical altar inside was used until the end of antiquity, whilst to the east and south of the temple stood a stoa for storing some of the famous donations of Apollo.[55] The ramifications for the temple after the Ionians lost the naval battle off of the islands of Lade in 494 BC were that most of the buildings of Didyma were heavily damaged by the Persians. The planning for the new Hellenistic temple started after 334 BC. The Milesians resolved to build one of the greatest temples ever made. This goal was not really reached, but they built a temple with a unique plan. The temple of Apollo was clearly planned according to ritual requirements. Though at this present moment, the exact usage and function can only possibly be a matter of conjecture.[56] The temple certainly attained the ambition of being one of the largest ancient temples ever built, itscrepidomawith 7 steps measures almost 60 by 120 meters and thestylobate51 by 109 meters. The temple building itself was surrounded by a double file of Ionic columns, each one of them 19.70 meters high. This consisted of 10 columns along the shorter sides and the 21 columns filling the longer sides, though not all of these were erected even by the end of antiquity. Above the columns followed thearchitraveswith thefrieze.The frieze is especially famous as it housed the impressively monumental heads ofMedusa.[57]

A stone-carvedMedusahead

The entrance was at the east side. With apronaosof three rows of four columns, the approaching visitor passed through a regularized grove formed by the columns. The door usually leading to a cella was replaced by a blank wall with a large upper opening through which one could glimpse the upper part of the naiskos in the inner court (in inscriptions the inner court is referred to as "sekos" or "adyton"). The impassable threshold of this door stands 1.5 meters above the floor of thepronaos,while the entire door reaches a height of 14 meters.[58] The entry route lay down either of two long constricted sloping tunnels built within the thickness of the walls and giving access to the inner court, still open to the sky but isolated from the world by the 25 meters high walls of the sekos. This was the location of the oracle spring, the laurel tree and the naiskos with the cult statue.[59]The foundations of the naiskos are 8.24 meters wide and 14.23 meters long. This Ionicprostyloswas built around 300 BC. It is famed because of the superior high quality of its ornamentation.[60]The naiskos with the cult statue of Apollo is depicted onImperialcoins ofMiletus.[61]The sacred oracle spring was not situated in the naiskos, but in the eastern half of the sekos. It was found beneath the early Byzantine church.[62]The inner walls of the sekos were articulated bypilasters.Thecapitalsof them are ornamented withgriffinsand flowers. Among them a long frieze with griffins decorated the whole sekos.[63]

A pilaster capital with griffins.

Between the two tunnel exits in the sekos a monumental staircase leads up to three openings into a room whose roof was supported by two columns on the central cross-axis. Among these three doors were placed twoCorinthianhalf columns, whose spectacular capitals originally survived but during the First World War they were unfortunately destroyed. The room with the two central columns opened to the east to the great impassable portal. To the north and south of this hall two stairwells existed. In inscriptions they were called "labyrinthoi", probably because of their ceiling decoration showing ameanderpattern. These labyrinthoi lead to the roof of the temple and their function is not yet clear.[64]

The ceiling of the "labyrinthoi" with the famous meander pattern.

The oracular procedure so well documented at Delphi is almost unknown at Didyma and must be reconstructed on the basis of the temple's construction. The priestess sat above the oracle spring and was inspired by Apollo. The prophet announced the oracle probably from the room with the high and impassable threshold. The answers were delivered, as in Delphi, in classical hexameters. But at Delphi, nothing was written; at Didyma, inquiries and answers were written and some inscriptions with them were found. In Didyma a small structure, the Chresmographion featured in this process; it was situated outside the temple because according to inscriptions it was used for storing architectural members for the temple there.[65]

A base of a column of the eastern facade.

Although the construction work continued for over 600 years the temple of Apollo was never completed. But the main body of the temple itself had been completed around 100 BC. In the following centuriesMiletuscontinued to erect the columns of thecolonnade.The columns of the eastern façade were built during the reign of emperorHadrian.The western facade was completed too and some columns on the flanks. The roof was also never entirely finished; the temple lacked thepediments.[66] There were also other parts of this huge temple which remained unfinished. Therefore, this building is totally unique inGreek architecture.It is like a handbook on this topic which informs you about all the different stages of constructing a temple. When something is unfinished it becomes easier to see the process of construction. This "book" begins in the quarries of Miletus at the former Latmian Gulf (today Bafa Gölü) and lead from the harbours there to the harbour of Didyma (former Panormos, today Mavisehir). From there along the road to the sanctuary and then into the sanctuary. At all these places unfinished architectural members of the temple are visible.[67] The inner walls of the sekos remained unpolished too. That's why Lothar Haselberger could discover there the Hellenistic construction drawings. This discovery and interpretation led to some important information about the planning and the building phase of the Apollo temple. In particular, the very famous one of the draft of a column of the temple of Apollo is on the northern sekos wall. On the western wall inside the sekos the inscribed pictorial instructions of the pediment of a small temple is scratched in. Because the inscribed architectural members are similar in style to the naiskos of Apollo Haselberger and other scholars thought that it could have been the design drawings of the naiskos. But one problem persisted unsolved, because the drawn pediment is over 2 meters wider than the actual one of the naiskos of Apollo.[68]

The mosque (with the temple of Artemis behind) and the temple of Apollo eastwards

This perplexing enigma was eventually unravelled in 2012. It had been clear that the drawing on the western sekos wall would also suit to the rediscovered fragments of architectural members from the temple of Artemis also. So the Hellenistic temple of Artemis was designed with Apollo's naiskos as a model, drawn upon the wall behind the naiskos in the 2nd century BC. The only existing problem was to find a foundation with the width of the drawing (10,71 meters).[69]

The temple of Artemis

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Foundations of the temple of Artemis northwards.

The foundations of the temple ofArtemiswere discovered in 2013 directly behind the mosque and formerGreek Orthodoxchurch of SaintCharalambos100 m north of the temple ofApollo.In contrast to the temple of Apollo the foundation of the temple of Artemis is orientated exactly East-West, as it is common for mostGreek temples.[70]The remains of the foundations show that the temple had the dimensions of 31,60 meters long and 11,50 meters wide. The extant limestone blocks prove that the temple of Artemis had three rooms. Parts of its superstructure came not to light in situ. After the excavations the foundations were reinterred after each campaign, so today nothing is visible of them. It is not altogether clear if the temple of Artemis was orientated to the east or to the west because itsaltarhas not yet been found. During excavations at the east side came no remains of the altar to light, and the area in front of the west side has not yet been excavated. So it is more likely that the temple was orientated to the west because generally the altar was situated in front ofGreek temples.This supposition is strengthened by the fact that the two most famous temples of Artemis in Asia Minor, atEphesusand atMagnesia ad Maeandrum,were also faced to the west. [71]

Reconstructed floor plan of the Hellenistic temple of Artemis as tetrastyle amphiprostylos orientated to the west (light-green: extant foundations; black: probable position of walls and columns; red: grid with the proportions of the rooms and of the whole building)

During excavations in 1994, to the south of the mosque, anIonicarchitraveandfriezeblocks of an unknown building had been excavated. These blocks of whitemarblebear almost the same pattern and size as architrave and frieze from theHellenisticnaiskos of Apollo. Therefore, it seemed likely they belonged to the elusive and tantalising temple of Artemis because of the twinning stylistic components. But this idea was only proven by Ulf Weber in 2012. The architrave and frieze blocks from the Artemis temple are deeper and wider than the ones from Apollo's naiskos. Acorniceblock (consisting of geison and sima), already found in 1909, but first investigated in 2012 belongs to them. It was the keystone to solve the riddle.[72]

For architrave, frieze and cornice are derived from a wider temple than the naiskos. Further they match perfectly to the construction drawing in the sekos. Finally this construction drawing matches the proportions of the new temple foundation. That means the Ionic temple of Artemis had four front columns and its length was exactly three times longer than its width.[73] Another difference between the naiskos of Apollo and the temple of his sister Artemis concerns the time of their construction. The ornamentation of the naiskos can stylistically be dated around 300 BC, but the ornaments of the temple of Artemis date in the 2nd century BC. Hence the date of the new temple is known, but though it seems likely that it was dedicated to Artemis there remains speculation, especially as no inscription was found on the architectural members?[74]

Older inscriptions from the 6th century BC show that beside Apollo, both Artemis andHekatehad been worshipped in Didyma. Another inscription from the 3rd century BC mentions the cult statue of Artemis. In later inscriptions reconstruction works of the temple of Artemis are reported. Therefore, there can be no doubt that Artemis had her own temple in Didyma. She was the main deity beside Apollo, and to no other deity worshipped in Didyma is a temple documented. Furthermore, Artemis is the twin sister of Apollo. All this leads to the conclusion that this temple designed according to Apollo's naiskos must be the one of Artemis and it stood originally on the promontory north of the temple of Apollo.[75]

In the end these results contradict Klaus Tuchelt's view that the sanctuary of Artemis was situated west of the sacred way, as Helga Bumke had some years ago already suggested.[76]

Sacred Way with the Roman baths

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The Sacred Way from Miletus with the remains of the stoa.

The Sacred Way inside the sanctuary of Apollo was excavated under Klaus Tuchelt. He found the remains of different buildings from theArchaicperiod along the wide and plastered road. To the west of the road the rock comes to the surface. Situated there were some wells, basins and small water canals. Their usage is not yet really clear, but they could have had a cultic function. Along the road during theRomanperiod stood astoa.It also flanked the passageway to theRoman baths.So thestoaitogether with the water facilities make it more likely that the complex, of the so-called „Felsbarre ", served for profane reasons. One option would be a function similar to a Romanmacellum(food market), as proposed by Helga Bumke.[77]

The ruins of the Roman baths northwestwards.

The Roman baths at the end of an alley were erected in the 2nd century AD. Rudolf Naumann investigated them and found impressive mosaics in the entrance hall, theapodyterium.It was followed by thefrigidarium,thetepidariumandcaldarium.The baths were used until the 6th/7th century AD, as were other buildings along the Sacred Way.[78]

Stadium

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The southern flank of the temple of Apollo with the stadium.

Parallel to the southerncolonnadeof the temple of Apollo was situated astadiumwhich dates from theHellenistic period,though athleticagonswere probably held there earlier. The steps of the temple'screpidomaserved as seats for the spectators on the northern side of the stadium. Upon these seven steps are engraved many „topos inscriptions ".

Southern crepidoma of the temple of Apollo with a "topos inscription": ΦΙΛΙΣΚΟΥ (Seat of Philiskos).

That means the spectators marked their seats engraving their names. As these inscriptions are also found on the southern part of the western colonnade it seems likely that the stadium was longer than the south side of the temple of Apollo. The average stadium length was usually about 190 meters (onestadion). The seating on the southern side of the stadium consisted of tiers of limestone blocks with seven or eight steps. The remains of a device for starting the contests are extant near the southeast corner of the Apollo temple.[79]

Astonishingly, the blocks of the southern tier of the stadium were reused for thecaveaof thetheatrein the second half of the 1st century AD. One can but assume that the musicagonsbecame more important and influential than the athletic ones.[80]

Theatre

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The northern wall of the cavea westwards.

The remains of thetheatrecame to light during 2010 and 2011. The walls, stairs and steps of thecaveawere a totally unexpected find. Evidence that the theatre arose in the second half of the 1st century AD is indicated by the find of acoindating from the time of the Roman emperorNeroand a lot of sherds from the same period. Then the cavea had a diameter of 52 meters and could receive 3000 spectators. Later in the first half of the 2nd century AD it was enlarged to a diameter of 61 meters and 4000 spectators would have found a seat.[81]

North half of the Cavea with the excavated walls and stairs (gray).

At this present time it has not been possible to excavate the foundations of thestage building,but the architectural members of a building typical for a scene building are known since the beginning of the 20th century. After the cavea of the theatre was excavated Helga Bumke suggested that theentablatureof the so-called „Tabernakel "building was part of the scene building. The inscribed dedications on thearchitravesreveals that the stage building was consecrated to the godsApollo,Artemis,Leto,Zeus,the emperorHadrianand the people ofMiletus.But it is not known who dedicated this building. As emperor Hadrian visited Miletus and Didyma in 129 AD the scene building was probably complete by that time. The winners of themusical contests,organized to worship Apollo, were honoured in several inscriptions from theRoman period.These competitions took place in the newly found theatre, but it can be assumed that aHellenisticpredecessor existed. An inscription from the beginning 3rd century BC reports thatAntiochos Ireceived aseat of honourduring thechoir contestsat Didyma.[82]

Other Buildings

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The ancient inscriptions of Didyma testify that many more buildings existed there inantiquitythan the mentioned ones above. During the many years of excavations hundreds of architectural fragments came to light which could be not allocated to a known building or monument. One of them is aDoricstoafrom the 2nd century BC,[83]and another one the so-called „Prophetenhaus "or chresmographeion, a smaller Doric building also from the 2nd century BC.[84]The search of the foundations of these and other structures is difficult because the area around Apollo's temple is closely built-up. Therefore, it is almost impossible to usegeophysical prospecting methodsfor the search. Interpreting the written sources and old maps make it possible to find places with ancient foundations. This was done by Helga Bumke in the case of the foundation of the temple of Artemis and anotherHellenisticfoundation southeast of the temple of Apollo in 2013. This squarish substructure measuring 11 meters by 12 meters consisted of limestone blocks, but no superstructure came to light. It may have had a cultic function because it is characterised by the same curious orientation as the temple of Apollo (or it was used as apropylon). Above the substructure was a small church built inByzantine timeswhich has seen several reconstructions up until the 19th century.[85]

Churches

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The mosque and formerly church northwards (the foundations of the temple of Artemis are behind).

The most famouschurchof Didyma stood in the sekos of the temple ofApollo.Its final remains were demolished in 1925. This church was made with blocks from the naiskos and other small buildings from outside the temple around 500 AD. After a serious earthquake in the 7th century AD, a reconstruction of the three-aisledbasilicawas erected. In the 11th century AD, another earthquake occurred and the church in the sekos collapsed. This was replaced by only a small chapel which was used for theChristian cult.[86] Another early Christian church was constructed 100 meters north of the temple of Apollo, at approximately the same location where today the mosque stands. This church also employed the use of ancient blocks salvaged from the temple ofArtemisnearby and the previously mentionedDoricstoaabove. Its later history is not yet clear, but in 1830 their remains were used to erect a new church (dedicated to SaintCharalambos) for the recently arrived Greek settlers.[87]In 1924 it was converted into a mosque for theMuslimsjust transported from North Greece during theExchange of Populations.[88]

More chapels or churches surely existed inByzantineDidyma because it was the seat of abishopric,but about this age little is known. Some of these Byzantine churches either fell into disrepair or used as animal pens after the area was abandoned in the 16th century and reused by the newly settled Greeks at the end of the 18th century when the quarrying of the temple marble became a profitable trade.[89]

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Notes

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  1. ^Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 11. 14. 60-64. 105.
  2. ^Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 13. 57.
  3. ^Tuchelt, K. (1991). Branchidai-Didyma, p. 38-39; Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 259-275.
  4. ^The archaeological research project of Panormos
  5. ^British Museum Collection;Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 111-114. 120-121. 128-132. 260-275.
  6. ^British Museum Highlights
  7. ^Strabo, Geographica 14.1.5.
  8. ^Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 33-34. 234-236.
  9. ^Joseph Eddy Fontenrosenoted thatDidymais akin toIdymain Caria, andSidymain Lycia. SeeFontenrose, Joseph Eddy (1932). "Zeus Didymaeus".Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association.62:251.doi:10.2307/283217.JSTOR283217.
  10. ^Fontenrose demonstrated that a "Zeus Didymeus" that was mentioned once, byNicander,is a phantom based on a merely geographical epithet: the Zeus who shared honors of patronage at Didyma, though not in the Didymaion itself, was actually Zeus Soter, "Zeus the Saviour". SeeFontenrose, Joseph Eddy (1932). "Zeus Didymaeus".Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association.62:245–255.doi:10.2307/283217.JSTOR283217.
  11. ^Tuchelt, K. (1991). Branchidai-Didyma, p. 9-10; Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 244-246. 288.
  12. ^Parke, H. W. (1986). "The Temple of Apollo at Didyma: The Building and Its Function".The Journal of Hellenic Studies.106:123.doi:10.2307/629647.JSTOR629647.S2CID159818455.
  13. ^Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 34-35.
  14. ^Based on the suggestion inStrabothat the Magnesians came from the region round Mount Didyma in Thessaly and erected in their new home a temple to Dindymene, "Mother of the Gods", i.e. Cybele. SeeWilamowitz-Moellendorff, Ulrich von (1895). "Die Herkunft amMagneten-um-Maeander".Hermes.30:181.
  15. ^Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 129-132.
  16. ^APOLLON TITLEStheoi.com; Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 34. 107.
  17. ^Bragxos, βράγχος, "hoarse". SeeHammond, N. G. L. (1998). "The Branchidae at Didyma and in Sogdiana".The Classical Quarterly.48(2): 339–344.doi:10.1093/cq/48.2.339.JSTOR639826.Note 1.
  18. ^Strabo, Geographica, 14.1.5; Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 34. 60-61.
  19. ^Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 121-123.
  20. ^Herodotus, Histories, 1.157.3.
  21. ^Pausanias, Description of Greece, 7.2.6.
  22. ^Clement Alexandrinus, Protrepticus, 3.45.2-3.
  23. ^Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.10.5; Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 62.
  24. ^Parke reports that the adyton is normally dry today; Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 60-64.
  25. ^see Strabo, Geographica 17,1,43; Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 14.
  26. ^Vitruvius, De architectura, 7 praef. 16; Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 73. 79-80.
  27. ^Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8.46.3; Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 26. 62. 204. 226.
  28. ^Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 14. 113-114.
  29. ^Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 113.
  30. ^Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, 6.18.
  31. ^Hammond, N. G. L. (1998). "The Branchidae at Didyma and in Sogdiana".The Classical Quarterly.48(2): 339–344.doi:10.1093/cq/48.2.339.JSTOR639826.Note 2.
  32. ^Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 113-114.
  33. ^Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 302-305.
  34. ^Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 25.
  35. ^Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 72. 152. 167.
  36. ^Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 194-196. 260-263.
  37. ^Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 301.
  38. ^Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 253-254. 291-292.
  39. ^Robert Parker, reviewing Fontenrose 1988 inThe Classical ReviewNew Series39.2 (1989), p 270.
  40. ^Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 35-37.
  41. ^Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 37-42.
  42. ^Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 16. 41-42. 67-69.
  43. ^One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Chisholm, Hugh,ed. (1911). "Didymi".Encyclopædia Britannica.Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 207–208.;Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 9-29. 43-56. 71-85. 138-173.
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  46. ^Haselberger,Die Bauzeichnungen des Apollontempels von Didyma(Deutscher Kunstverlag), 1983; "Antike Planzeichnungen am Apollontempel von Didyma"Spektrum der Wissenschaft,1985; "Aspekte der Bauzeichnungen von Didyma",Revue archéologique,1991
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  53. ^Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 161-162. 212-218. 227-228. 286-290.
  54. ^Pausanias, Description of Greece, 5.13.8–11.
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  56. ^Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 14-15. 60-64. 244. 276-279.
  57. ^Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 110. 163-167.
  58. ^Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 97-102.
  59. ^http://www.smb-digital.de/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=698371&viewType=detailViewRelief with the cult statue
  60. ^Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 222-228. 236.
  61. ^"[Monnaie: Bronze, Milet, Ionie, Balbin]".
  62. ^Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 24-26. 204-207.
  63. ^Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 22-24.
  64. ^See the corresponding parts in: Wiegand, Th., Knackfuß, H. (1941) Die Baubeschreibung, Didyma 1; Weber, U. (2020). Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, p. 54. 100-101. 202-204.
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  • Jan Breder, Helga Bumke:Die Kulte von Didyma im Licht neu entdeckter BautenIn:Antike Welt.2016/2, p. 52–60.
  • Helga Bumke, Jan Breder, Ivonne Kaiser, Bettina Reichardt, Ulf Weber: Didyma. Bericht über die Arbeiten der Jahre 2010-2013. In: Archäologischer Anzeiger. 2015/1, p. 109–172.
  • Helga Bumke: Aktuelle Forschungen in Didyma. In: Anatolien - Brücke der Kulturen. 2015, p. 325–343.
  • Helga Bumke (Ed.), 2022.Der archaische Heiligtumsbefund vom Taxiarchis-Hügel in Didyma. Teilband 1: Grabungsstratigraphie, archäologischer Kontext und topographische Einbindung.
  • Helga Bumke (Ed.), 2024.Der archaische Heiligtumsbefund vom Taxiarchis-Hügel in Didyma: Teilband 2: Das Fundmaterial aus den archaischen Kontexten des Taxiarchis-Hügels, Teil 1.
  • Joseph Fontenrose,1988.Didyma. Apollo's Oracle, Cult and Companions,(Berkeley). Catalogue of Didyman inquiries and responses, translated.
  • Andreas E. Furtwängler, Didyma: Ein Überblick über die jüngeren Forschungen. In: Colloquium Anatolicum 8, 2009, p. 1-21.
  • Robin Lane Fox,Pagans and Christians1986: Chapter 5.
  • Wolfgang Günther, with a contribution by Rudolf Haensch, 2023.Inschriften von Didyma. Supplement.
  • Glenn Maffia, 2018.Faint Whispers from the Oracle.
  • H. W. Parke, 1985.The Oracles of Apollo in Asia Minor.
  • Emmanuel Pontremoli, Bernard Haussoullier, 1904.Didymes. Fouilles de 1895 et 1896.
  • Stefan Pülz, 1989.Untersuchungen zur kaiserzeitlichen Bauornamentik von Didyma,Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Istanbul Beiheft 35.
  • Alfred Rehm, 1958.Die Inschriften, Didyma 2.
  • Klaus Tuchelt, 1973.Vorarbeiten zu einer Topographie von Didyma,Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Istanbul Beiheft 9.
  • Klaus Tuchelt, 1991.Branchidai-Didyma.
  • Walter Voigtländer, 1975.Der jüngste Apollontempel von Didyma. Geschichte seines Baudekors,Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Istanbul Beiheft 14.
  • Ulf Weber:Der Altar des Apollon von Didyma.In:Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Istanbul.vol. 65, 2015, p. 5–61.
  • Ulf Weber, 2020.Das Apollonheiligtum von Didyma - Dargestellt an seiner Forschungsgeschichte von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart.
  • Theodor Wiegand, Hubert Knackfuß, 1941.Die Baubeschreibung, Didyma 1(The prime archaeological report).
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