Euromos - Mugla
Euromos - Mugla
Euromos was the most important city in the region after Mylasa in ancient times. The name of the city is BC. It appears in the form of "Kyramos" or "Hyramos" in the 5th century. Euromos, which means “strong” in Greek, should have been used as a result of Mausolos' Hellenization policy. According to what we learned from an inscription, Euromos had a cross with northern neighbor Herakleia. The reason for this was that the Heracleians looted the lands of Euromos and brought holy and special goods, and Mylasa officials, who were affected by the loot, who were affected by the looting, resolved the problem with the envoy they sent to Herakleia. Although the ruins of the city are very worn out, one of Asia's best-preserved half-dozen temples is the Temple of Zeus in Euromos. A.D. It was constructed in Corinthian order with 6 columns and 9 columns on the sides of the building from the 2nd century. It is understood that the decoration work was abandoned since 3 columns on the north side of the building and the column on the southwestern corner were not grooved.
There are votive inscription boards on all of the columns on the faces facing north and west. Five of the columns were presented by physicist and public servant Menekrates and his daughter Tryphania, and seven by another public official named Leo Quintos. The big but rather bad theater is located in the recess of the slope just above the plain. The northern parts of the 5 rows of seats that are visible are well preserved. Several columns of the stoa surrounding the agora on a flat area are visible. There is another stoa further west. In one of the columns of this stoa, there is a long inscription giving information about the monetary aid of Kallisthenes to the city and the bias of Iasos. In the 1970s, the Temple of Zeus and its surroundings. Dr. Excavation and restoration works were carried out by Ümit Serdaroğlu, but these studies were left unfinished in the following years.
