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Roman, Greek and ClassicalSite Name: Chrysa Temple of Sminthian Apollo Alternative Name: Apollo Smintheus, Apollon Smintheion
Country: Turkey Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Ezine  Nearest Village: Gülpinar
Latitude: 39.537476N  Longitude: 26.116991E
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4 Access:
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4Short walk on a footpath
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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Chrysa Temple of Sminthian Apollo
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Ancient Temple in Çanakkale Province, Turkey

Remains of a 2nd century BCE temple of Apollo which measured 42 metres by 23 metres and which had 14 by 8 columns. There has been some restoration on one corner.
The Greek town Chrysa was founded via the amalgamation of other nearby Greek settlements.
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Re: Chrysa Temple of Sminthian Apollo by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 02 September 2015
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This is one of the "13 of Turkey’s historic heritage sites destroyed by erroneous ‘restoration’" - Hürriyet.
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Tomb reveals burial methods of ancient age by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 21 January 2015
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A tomb discovered during excavations at the temple of Apollon Smintheus in Çanakkale provides information about ancient burial methods. The tomb is the first one unearthed since work began in 2004.

Excavations at Apollon Smintheus, located in the northwestern province of Çanakkale’s Ayvacık district, have unearthed a 7,000-year-old tomb.

Headed by Professor Coşkun Özgünel, the excavations are being carried out with scientific consultancy from the head of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University’s (ÇOMÜ) Archaeology Department, Professor Turan Takaoğlu.

Takaoğlu said the tomb, which is a significant finding for the region’s archaeological history, provided crucial information about the burial methods in the region during that ancient era.

He said bodies were laid in the tombs in the fetal position. “Ceramics were put next to the bodies as gifts. The tombs were covered with stones randomly. The tombs were discovered for the first time in Smitheus, where prehistoric settlement excavations began in 2004,” he said.

The professor said the tombs would help them fill in the gaps in the region’s archaeology.

The Apollon Smitheus Temple is located in the Bahçeleriçi area, in the skirts of a valley between the northwest and northeast of Gülpınar village in Ayvacık, which was known as Külahlı in the past.

It was built in the second half of the 2nd century B.C. and was a sacred place in the Troas region. The pseudodipteral style of the architect Hermogenes was used in the temple’s design. There are eight columns at both the front and back of the temple and 14 columns along its sides.

The temple contains three chambers, including a pronaos (sacred front chamber), a naos (sacred room) and an opisthodomos (back chamber), as well as the statue of the god Apollon, made by the sculptor Skopas.

According to a book titled “Geographica,” written by famous geographer and traveler Strabo 2,000 years ago, when the Ions came from Greece and surrounded the city, a host of rats came to the surface from underground at night and nibbled their weapons and equipment, which caused the Ions to lose the war. The people of the region then built the temple as a symbol of their appreciation.

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Historical Apollon temple arises from rendering plant by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 06 August 2014
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A two-millennium-old temple in Çanakkale’s Ayvacık district has been under restoration for 35 years and the new plan is to open it to visitors. But the restorations will continue for the next century, according to officials. The 2,000-year-old Apollon Smintheus Temple, which was under a rendering plant in the northwestern province of Çanakkale’s Ayvacık district, has been re-discovered after long-term archaeological efforts.

Professor Coşkun Özgünel, who initiated the excavations in 1980 in the Gülpınar village on behalf of the Culture and Tourism Ministry Cultural Heritage and Museums General Directorate, has spent 35 years of his life dedicated to the Apollon Smintheus Temple. Even though he retired in 2008, Özgünel continued excavations with the goal to revive the southern façade of the temple, which has been looted since the 18th century, using the original tools in hand.

He said when they started the excavations, there was a rendering plant and a dairy firm on the temple, a hovel for laborers next to it and was surrounded by storehouses keeping the olive sacks. One year after the Culture Ministry expropriated this area, in 1982 they started to remove the rendering plant, which had been constructed on the temple, said Özgünel, adding they had seen a great damage in the region. “We found most of the pieces of the temple in Gülpınar and in the Tuzla lowlands and gathered these pieces,” he added.

The professor said when they had come to the area for excavations, there was no sign of the Apollon Smintheus. “Pieces of columns were massed in a place in the temple’s area. Everywhere was a garden. Water pools were constructed; people were watering their gardens through these pools. The name of this area had been ‘Bahçeleriçi’ [inside the gardens] since 1866. There was a rendering plant on the temple. The owner of the plant made use of this area. He built storehouses, as well as channels to discharge the waste from olives. We found the temple among all of these things. They were expropriated one by one. The structure that we organized as a depot museum in the entrance of the temple was another rendering plant. There was a vast layer of earth on the temple. Using the original pieces, we began building its southwestern side. Pullan, who made the first excavations here in 1866, began reconstructing this place and described all of these things,” he said. “We are following his traces and rebuilding this temple. We succeeded in drawing the temple’s southern entrance’s façade. Now we are continuing the restoration of this façade using original pieces. We have 80 percent of these original pieces.”

Listing what they had found during the 35 years of excavations, Özgünel said they had discovered a temple from a rendering plant, a depot museum from another rendering temple, a bath complex with a gymnasium, a Roman villa, a bath to the Roman villa, water depots and the most important and best preserved chalcolithic center in northwestern Anatolia, dating back to 4500 B.C. “But we have many more things to do,” the professor said. “These restorations will continue for centuries. The biggest holy area, which served the Alexandria Troas, along with Troy, will be completely unearthed. We will first finish the restorations in the temple. Then, we will plan the environmental arrangement.

We covered the temple’s long and narrow parts with grass. When the restoration is done, other façades will be covered with grass and small decorative plants. We also want to cover
Gülpınar and open it to visitors as the most important chalcolithic center in northwestern Anatolia. We also plan to restore the other rendering plant, which we expropriated two years ago, and turn it into a museum. I want to leave the excavations here to a young person and follow them from a distance with pleasure. This is my biggest wish.”
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