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Lagina (Ancient Greek: τὰ Λάγινα) or Laginia (Λαγινία) was a town and religious centre in ancient Caria. It contained an important monumental temple of Hecate, at which great festivals were celebrated every year. For most of antiquity, it was a part of the territory of Stratonicea.
Its site is located near Turgut, Anatolia, in southwestern Turkey.
Recent studies have revealed the site to have been inhabited and/or employed in an uninterrupted manner during a time span stretching back to the Bronze Age.[citation needed]
Little is known about the early history of Lagina as a town and religious sanctuary, although it existed as early as the 4th century BCE. At that time, Lagina was a deme of nearby Koranza. Unlike the sanctuaries at Sinuri or Labraunda, Lagina does not appear to have been favoured by the Hecatomnids.
Lagina became one of the major rural cult centres of the polis of Stratonicea. Stratonicea was a large Seleucid colony in Caria, settled by Macedonians and local Carians, in the mid-3rd century BCE. Every year, Stratoniceans would go on pilgrimage to the temple of Hecate at Lagina and of Zeus at Panamara. When Tacitus spoke of the worship of Trivia among the Stratoniceans, he evidently meant Hecate. The goddess Hecate was so important to Stratonicea that her likeness appeared on coins of the independent city after 167/166 BCE.
Seleucid kings conducted a considerable construction effort in the sacred ground of Lagina and transformed it into a foremost religious center of its time. Lagina and Stratonicea were connected to each other by a 'sacred path' 11 kilometers long, along which pilgrims could process.
The close association between Lagina and Stratonicea continued after the Seleucids lost control of Caria. In 188 BCE, the Treaty of Apamea gave governance of Caria to Rhodes, an ally of the Roman Republic during the Roman–Seleucid war. An inscription from this time shows that the head priest of Hecate was also appointed local priest of the Rhodian sun-god Helios, by decree of Stratonicea.
Alongside the rest of Caria, Lagina and Stratonicea became part of the Roman province of Asia by the end of the 2nd century BCE. The Roman period saw the most elaborate temple of Hekate build at Lagina. Although it was previously thought that the temple was constructed in the aftermath of the First Mithridatic War (i.e. late 80s BCE), it is now understood to have been built earlier, before the war against Eumenes III Aristonikos in 133 BCE. The temple is considered the last great monument of the so-called 'Ionian Renaissance', which began in Hecatomnid Caria with monuments like the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.
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Lagina (Ancient Greek: τὰ Λάγινα) or Laginia (Λαγινία) was a town and religious centre in ancient Caria. It contained an important monumental temple of Hecate, at which great festivals were celebrated every year. For most of antiquity, it was a part of the territory of Stratonicea.
Its site is located near Turgut, Anatolia, in southwestern Turkey.
Recent studies have revealed the site to have been inhabited and/or employed in an uninterrupted manner during a time span stretching back to the Bronze Age.[citation needed]
Little is known about the early history of Lagina as a town and religious sanctuary, although it existed as early as the 4th century BCE. At that time, Lagina was a deme of nearby Koranza. Unlike the sanctuaries at Sinuri or Labraunda, Lagina does not appear to have been favoured by the Hecatomnids.
Lagina became one of the major rural cult centres of the polis of Stratonicea. Stratonicea was a large Seleucid colony in Caria, settled by Macedonians and local Carians, in the mid-3rd century BCE. Every year, Stratoniceans would go on pilgrimage to the temple of Hecate at Lagina and of Zeus at Panamara. When Tacitus spoke of the worship of Trivia among the Stratoniceans, he evidently meant Hecate. The goddess Hecate was so important to Stratonicea that her likeness appeared on coins of the independent city after 167/166 BCE.
Seleucid kings conducted a considerable construction effort in the sacred ground of Lagina and transformed it into a foremost religious center of its time. Lagina and Stratonicea were connected to each other by a 'sacred path' 11 kilometers long, along which pilgrims could process.
The close association between Lagina and Stratonicea continued after the Seleucids lost control of Caria. In 188 BCE, the Treaty of Apamea gave governance of Caria to Rhodes, an ally of the Roman Republic during the Roman–Seleucid war. An inscription from this time shows that the head priest of Hecate was also appointed local priest of the Rhodian sun-god Helios, by decree of Stratonicea.
Alongside the rest of Caria, Lagina and Stratonicea became part of the Roman province of Asia by the end of the 2nd century BCE. The Roman period saw the most elaborate temple of Hekate build at Lagina. Although it was previously thought that the temple was constructed in the aftermath of the First Mithridatic War (i.e. late 80s BCE), it is now understood to have been built earlier, before the war against Eumenes III Aristonikos in 133 BCE. The temple is considered the last great monument of the so-called 'Ionian Renaissance', which began in Hecatomnid Caria with monuments like the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.
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