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9 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Archaic (Cypselid to Persian entry) · Ionian Greek (Erythraean polis, Sibylline tradition)
Ionian Sibyl city's upper-terrace Ionic Athena temple 8×13 c.540 BCE above Chios strait.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Geometric to Medieval · Mycenaean, Dorian Rhodian, Byzantine, Knights
Rhodes 267-m Filerimos Doric Athena Polias 3rd BCE atop Minoan–Knights stratigraphy with sacred road and fountain.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Geometric to Archaic (Old Smyrna) · Ionian Greek (Aiolian foundation)
Bayraklı 630 BCE hekatompedon Athena with Aeolic capitals, earliest Ionian temple on Old Smyrna 8th BCE walls.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Archaic to Hellenistic · Dorian Rhodian
NW Rhodes hilltop Doric Athena Polias above Hellenistic fountain agora with 200-m aqueduct, 6th BCE–408 synoecism.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic · Hekatomnid Carian, Hellenistic
Lake Bafa gneiss city with 6.5-km Hellenistic walls and 3rd BCE Athena temple above Endymion grotto.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Late Classical to Hellenistic · Ionian Greek (Pytheos architect) under Alexander and later Antigonid
82-m north stoa of Pytheos' model Ionic temple of Athena Polias at Priene.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Archaic to Roman · Aiolian Greek, Hellenistic Attalid
Yunt Dağ 400-m Aiolian Athena 300 BCE terrace with 3-storey stoa and agora, 12 Aiolian League wool city.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic (350–150 BCE) with Roman annex · Milesian-Ionian Prieneans under Alexander patron
Council sanctuary with 640-seat Bouleuterion and Augustus calendar stoa 40 m from Athena temple.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic (300–150 BCE) foundation over Archaic · Hellenistic Lysimachan Heracleans with Karian memory
Athena peripteros 6×11 on cyclopean walled acropolis above Bafa Lake Endymion heroon.
