classicalmonuments:Prytaneion of PrienePriene, Ionia, Turkey180 BCEThe prytaneum was a meeting house
classicalmonuments:Prytaneion of PrienePriene, Ionia, Turkey180 BCEThe prytaneum was a meeting house and a dining room for senate members and housed the sacred flame of Hestia. I was adjacent to the bouleuterion in the center of the city. The building in its present state takes the form of a peristyle house: a rectangular structure with a central paved, colonnaded courtyard surrounded by three small rooms on the north, two on the west and three on the south sides. The building was entered through a door in the north wall of the central room in the south row.The Prytaneion held the sacred flame of the city, was dedicated to the goddess Hestia and held all other continuallyburned hearths. In the room to the east of the entrance stands the Sacred Hearth in which the sacred fire burned. The hearth was made of rubble which was 30 centimeters and is believed to date from earlier periods.At the entrance to the southernmost room of the western row stands a reused column shaft carved with the following inscription:“The most brilliant city of the Ionian citizens of Priene and the most powerful Council and the most august Synhedrin of the elders in accordance with the things frequently received in (their?) accounts for…(council?) of the assemblies of the expenses of the city have honored M. Aur. Tatianus, the market official of the noble Pollion (?), the president of the festal assembly for the city’s goddess Athena, the presiding officer of the goddess, the chief president, and the crowed president of the senate. May you prosper.“More Priene buildingsOther Prytaneia -- source link