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<< Our Photo Pages >> Daskyleion - Ancient Village or Settlement in Turkey

Submitted by davidmorgan on Tuesday, 21 September 2021  Page Views: 5726

Multi-periodSite Name: Daskyleion Alternative Name: Dascylium, Hisartepe
Country: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 40.637 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Bandirma  Nearest Village: Ergili
Latitude: 40.132656N  Longitude: 28.050851E
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Daskyleion submitted by davidmorgan : A recently discovered 5th century BCE Persian relief. Photo credit: Anadolu Agency. (Vote or comment on this photo)
A 7th century BCE Lydian city founded by King Gyges. It was under Persian rule from the 6th to 4th centuries BCE.

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Ancient relief discovered in Daskyleion by davidmorgan on Sunday, 19 September 2021
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Archeologists in northwestern Turkey discovered a relief on Monday [16/8/2021] depicting a war between the Greeks and Persians from the fifth century B.C.

The figures on the relief show fighting Greek soldiers beneath the hoofs of Persian warhorses, said archeologist Kaan Iren, who leads the dig site of the ancient city of Dascylium found in the modern-day Bandirma district of Balikesir province.

"Here is a scene of propaganda under the pretext of war. We can say these reliefs are a scene from the Persian-Greek wars," Iren told Anadolu Agency.

He added: "We think these reliefs were probably made for propaganda purposes during the wars."

Iren, who has been working at the excavation site in Dascylium with a team of 30 people since June 22, said they had unearthed parts of a stone and mudbrick wall dating back to the eighth century B.C. this year.

"Of the eighth-century-B.C. wall left from the Phrygian age, this year we unearthed an area of four meters (13.1 feet) high and 40 meters long. We think this wall, which made of stone and mudbrick with the mudbrick parts having disappeared over time, was seven or eight meters high," said Iren, who is also a faculty member of the Mugla Sitki Kocman University.

The five-meter-wide wall is believed to have been built by the ancient Phrygian civilization to protect its territory, he said.

Iren noted that the discovery of the relief during the excavations of the wall surprised the team and became one of the season's most significant discoveries.

Source: Anadolu Agency.
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Two tumuluses found in Turkey's ancient Daskyleion by davidmorgan on Sunday, 26 September 2010
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From coldrum:

Archaeologists have discovered two tumuluses during the excavations in the ancient city of Daskyleion in the northwestern province of Balikesir.

Associate Professor Kaan Iren from the Mugla University who heads the excavation team, told reporters, "we found a gate in one of the tumuluses which leads to a grave chamber. There were remains of two skeletons in the grave. We believe that they belonged to noble people or to members of the royal family."

"We also unearthed remains of a wooden desk in the tumulus. A glass bracelet, a silver earring, a perfume bottle and more than 30 coins were brought to daylight during the excavations," he said.

Iren said that they would carry out DNA analysis on the skeletons and flesh the skulls to identify the bodies.

Located some 30 kilometers away from Balikesir's Bandirma town, the ancient city was named after the King of Lydia "Daskylos". The king was sent to exile from Sardis because of dynasty conflicts and lived here for years.

During the excavations in 1954-1960, Turkish archeologist Prof. Dr. Ekrem Akurgal exposed a big Persian Province in the location.

Phrygians, Lydians, and Persians lived in the area including Alexander the Great's Helenistic period and Byzantian period. The first civilization was Phrygia which covered all 7th century B.C. Antique sources specify a city of Phrygia called "Afneon".

They lived here from the end of 8th century B.C. until the beginning of the 7th century B.C.

The Lydian civilization in Daskyleion took place between 7th century and mid 6th century. Later, Lydians and Persians lived in the region under Persian reign from 6th century and 4th century B.C. which was followed by the Macedonian Alexander the Great's reign. Then, from 321 B.C. to Roman era, "Hellenistic" period took place.


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