Travels #1: Side
By Liv,
This time I visited Side, in the southern coast of Turkey. Back in the day it was an important settlement in Pamphylia, much plagued by pirates until Pompey gave them the boot. Here's a few pictures of the remaining ruins:
Temple of Apollo
Amphitheatre
Nymphaeum
Agora and Temple of Tyche
Public baths, which house the local museum
A beautifully decorated sarcophagus. The marble is so polished I thought it was alabaster at first.
Milestone from Republican times with inscriptions in both Latin and (Ancient) Greek. I saw only one other stone artifact with inscriptions in both languages, everything else was in Greek - which, of course, makes perfect sense given the region.
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