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EGES (Ancient city) TURKEY
Square building, at the north of the Agora, dating back to the 1st
century BC. The entrance was on the south side, and the remains of the building
suggest U-shaped rows of stone seats along the walls. Identification of the building
as a bouleuterion is based on an inscription on an architrave, typically stating
"Antifanis Apollonida Dii Bollaio kai Istia ollaio kai to damo", meaning that
Antifanes, son of Apollonides, (dedicates) the building to Zeus Boulaios (patron
of town-councils) and to Hestia Boulaia (patroness of the communal hearth) and
to the Dimos (the assembly of the citizens). The main proof is the dedication
to Hestia, whose cult, concerning public buildings, was mainly associated to the
bouleuterion or the prytaneion, holding within the symbolic communal hearth
This text is cited June 2004 from the Foundation of the Hellenic World URL below.
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