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Joan and Cote

stanza31 — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:39:01 MDT

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Joan, Sarah and David in 2002?

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David, Sarah, Christi and Joan

stanza31 — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:00:16 MDT

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I can't remember to museum, but it's in Wash. D.C. 2003

Sarah, Christi, David and Joan 2003

stanza31 — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:59:16 MDT

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On the mall in Wash. D.C.

Sarah, David, Christi, and Joan

stanza31 — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:49:13 MDT

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Oh sure, it is always Joan who has her face in a map trying to figure out where we are to go next.

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stanza31 — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:47:47 MDT

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Stanza and Sue Whitener in Michigan 1987

stanza31 — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:43:43 MDT

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Sue leased Stanza for a year while I was working in the Chicago area. I was in town visiting and took this picture of her competing in the Ann Arbor area.

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Stanza

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Stanza loves to run around this field

David and Stanza

stanza31 — Mon, 3 Aug 2009 09:53:57 MDT

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David standing out in the field while Stanza is trotting up to him.

David with his CBS Leaders

stanza31 — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 14:02:47 MDT

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Showing them the pictures from our recent trip to Turkey at a party we held at our house June 2009

Couple of Bucks in the Backyard

stanza31 — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 14:02:29 MDT

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June 2009

Sunset at Home in Ridgefield Looking Northeast

stanza31 — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 14:02:12 MDT

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Late June 2009

Breakfast at the Farmhouse

stanza31 — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 13:50:17 MDT

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Breakfast at the Farmhouse II

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Cote

stanza31 — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 13:49:17 MDT

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Cote

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Cote

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Joan's acquisition from early March

Joan and Sonny (Betsy's horse)

stanza31 — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 13:48:16 MDT

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Joan and Betsy

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Joan and Betsy

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Back of Wile E. Coyote's Head

stanza31 — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 13:45:59 MDT

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Cote for short

Joan and Betsy

stanza31 — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 13:45:33 MDT

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View of House from a distance

stanza31 — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 13:44:02 MDT

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House Joan Stayed at with a Friend

stanza31 — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 13:43:39 MDT

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Joan's Trip to VT

stanza31 — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 13:42:01 MDT

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Rider's View

stanza31 — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 13:41:33 MDT

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Joan's Horse Stops to Drink

stanza31 — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 13:41:18 MDT

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They do drink after all!

View from our room in Kusadasi (near Ephesus)

stanza31 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:25:16 MDT

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Bay on the Aegean Sea

Aphrodisias

stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:56:29 MDT

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Restoration work is ongoing.

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:55:44 MDT

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Still part of the agora

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:55:12 MDT

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More agora area.

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:54:50 MDT

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This place had a massive agora (market).

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:54:23 MDT

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:53:37 MDT

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Joan in the "expensive seat" of the Bouleuterion which is where town councils were held. Unlike theaters, you had to be a citizen to vote here, which most people were not. I gave a rousing speech in favor of tax increases here just to test to acoustics. No one has to do much persuasion to convince people to keep their money. Thankfully, no one threw stones, of which there were many available. Some seats were engraved with the owners (and later family's) name. I think Joan voted against the tax increase and our 1000 ships stayed home. Of course, these days it's popular to launch a 1000 ships on borrowed money.

Aphrodisias

stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:53:15 MDT

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:52:37 MDT

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:52:13 MDT

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Beautiful flower near the Temple of Aphrodite in Aphrodisias.

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:51:43 MDT

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:51:19 MDT

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Cigdem and Joan. This was an entrance to the Temple area.

Ephesus

stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:38:17 MDT

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Pipes used for city plumbing - water in and waste out is the key to maintaining population of any size. This is the site of the Lydian (and later) ancient city of Ephesus. The view is toward where the ancient harbor was. At its height around 100AD, Ephesus was home to 400,000 - 500,000 souls, making it the largest city in the Roman Empire at one point. It was the NYC of its day.

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:38:06 MDT

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Partial view of the theater

Ephesus

stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:37:55 MDT

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Insert idol here...

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:37:46 MDT

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"Where's the agora? Down and to the right? Let's go!"

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:37:36 MDT

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Another temple, I believe

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:37:25 MDT

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Ephesus was an important center for early Christianity from the AD 50s. From AD 52-54, Paul lived here, working with the congregation and apparently organizing missionary activity into the hinterlands. He became embroiled in a dispute with artisans, whose livelihood depended on selling the statuettes of Artemis in the Temple of Artemis (Acts 19:23–41). He wrote between 53 and 57 A.D. the letter 1 Corinthians from Ephesus (possibly from the "Paul tower" close to the harbour, where he was imprisoned for a short time). Later Paul wrote to the Christian community at Ephesus, according to tradition, while he was in prison in Rome (around 62 A.D.) (source: Wikipedia)

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:37:14 MDT

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Temple to (an emperor if I'm not mistaken)

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:37:02 MDT

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:36:49 MDT

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Wall of the public bath. Of course, it would have been covered in marble

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:36:35 MDT

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Joan and Cigdem demo a Roman public latrine. What did you think they used those pipes for?

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:36:13 MDT

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This is a picture of what an interior room of one of the upper class houses looked like. There were very wealthy people in Ephesus whose homes occupied the southern hills and are currently being excavated. Some of these homes, in which the extended family lived, were "Bill Gates" sized.

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:36:04 MDT

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Joan walking through the fridigarium of a public bath. Note that the walls would have been done completely in marble.

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:35:20 MDT

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Mosaic on floor of a "luxury" homes. These homes had private plumbing among other luxuries.

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:35:04 MDT

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More excavation of the homes of the upper class

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:34:50 MDT

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Excavation of "high end" homes

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:34:36 MDT

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Statue of Athena (I think), goddess of wisdom, at the entrance to the library of Ephesus. There are four statues adorning the entrance.

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:34:05 MDT

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Entrance to the Agora

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:33:51 MDT

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Entrance to the agora (market) just to the north of the courtyard of the Library. The rules of the agora were written in stone on the side of the wall at each entrance. "Can't say we didn't warn you!"

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:33:35 MDT

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Entrance to the theater

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:33:18 MDT

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View from the theater seats. This place was spectacularly grand in its day. By the way, Sting played here exactly once. He did a promotional concert and then they realized the intense sound was moving the stones and the authorities forbade any future use. This is the theater where Paul's comrades were dragged. (See Acts 19:29).

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:33:01 MDT

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Looking back at the theater. The main road from the theater ran down to the docks. The theater seated 44,000 - 75,000 people and was probably the largest of the ancient world.

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:32:44 MDT

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Can you see the sign? "Genuine Fake Watches" This small market area is at the exit to the ancient city of Ephesus.

Artemis of the Ephesians

stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:32:30 MDT

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The Lydians conquered the Greek city of Ephesus in 560BC. Croesus, King of the Lydians, purported to be the richest man of his day, built the Temple of Artemis, the largest building in the ancient world, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The Temple was designed by the Greek architect Chersiphron and had 121 Ionic marble pillars each sixty feet tall, and a wooden roof. It also served as a bank and attracted visitors as a place of pilgrimage. It burned down on the day of Alexander the Great's birth. Of course, the idol Artemis in her temple was much larger than the one depicted here. The idol was carved from a meteorite most likely (see Acts 19.35). Artemis of the Ephesians was depicted differently than Diana of the Romans. Diana was the twin of Apollo in Roman mythology, and daughter of Zeus. I will resist the temptation to talk about Troy now! Anyway, Artemis as a fertility goddess (those are either bull testes or breats across her midsection) appears quite differently than Diana who is young and a huntress with a bow. Instead, what we see here is similar to images of the Phrygian (central Anatolia) goddess Cybele, who is a still more ancient "mother goddess." Cybele may be related to the Canaanite goddess Asherah (see 1 Kings 18:19).

St. John's Basilica

stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:31:32 MDT

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Looking along the side of Ayasuluk Hill on which the ruins of the Basilica and the Citadel sit. The Apostle John is purported to be buried here where the Basilica was built. Ayasuluk Hill is the original site of the Attic-Ionian colony founded in 10th C. BC.

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:31:02 MDT

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View looking down from Ayasoluk Hill to the town of Seljuk. The monument in the center of the picture is the extent of the sea in ancient times. This location has quite a history. Before the Romans, the Lydians, before them Ionian and Mycenae Greeks. This place has been inhabited since 6,000 BC.

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:30:38 MDT

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Ayasuluk Castle (Citadel of Ayasuluk) was built by the Romans (Byzantines) between the 7th to 9th centuries as protection against Arab and pirate attacks. Ayasoluk Hill is part of Selçuk (pronounced 'Seljuk'). Selçuk is located in the foothills of the Aydin mountains and was on the Aegean shore in ancient times before the Cayster River silted and ocean water levels were higher.

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:29:49 MDT

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The Basilica was built by Justinian in the 6th Century atop Ayasoluk (Ayasuluk) Hill.

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:29:07 MDT

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Cigdem and Joan. Possible site of the Apostle John's tomb.

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stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:28:45 MDT

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Cigdem and Joan

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Near Ephesus. Originally part of the greater area of Ephesus.

David dips his toes in the Aegean Sea

stanza31 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:28:03 MDT

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At the resort where we stayed for two nights in Kusadasi near Ancient Ephesus

Dinner Our Last Night in Asia

stanza31 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:02:24 MDT

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Dinner at our Inn across the Hellespont from Gallipoli

Pergamum

stanza31 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:53:57 MDT

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Wall of the Heroon, the place where a special meal was taken in honor of the "deified Pergamum kings." After the Seleucid King Antiochus III (aka "the Great") died, his eldest son ascended the throne while his younger son (later known infamously to history as Antiochus Epiphanes) was recalled from exile in Rome where he was a Roman hostage due to the treaty of Magnesia. When his elder brother was murdered by his Treasurer, AE allied with the Attalid kings of Pergamum, specifically, Eumenes, who had opposed AE's father, and regained control of the Seleucid kingdom. This most improbable event was prophesied by the Jewish prophet Daniel in Daniel Chap 11. Attalos III willed the his kingdom to Rome in 133 BC. He greatly admired Rome and had no heir so decided to spare his people a bloody succession.

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stanza31 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:53:49 MDT

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Trajan's temple occupied the central part of the high ground. I wonder what is under it

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stanza31 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:53:42 MDT

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Trajan's temple again

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stanza31 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:53:36 MDT

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More of Trajan's temple

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stanza31 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:53:29 MDT

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Temple of Trajan

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stanza31 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:53:23 MDT

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The theater only sat 10,000 spectators which makes it about 1/4 or 1/7 the size of the theater in Ephesus. The tower you see is actually Byzantine, but the theater was built between 165 BC and 200 BC.

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stanza31 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:53:14 MDT

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View of the modern city

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That road would probably take a man and a loaded donkey a good part of the day as it winds around the hill before they would get to the City.

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stanza31 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:52:55 MDT

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Pergamum also had a library which rivaled Alexandria. When the Ptolemies embargoed papyrus to Pergamum and Ephesus, Pergamum invented a new writing surface called "parchment". It was the skin of a sheep. To be efficient, they wanted to write on both sides, so they started creating codices instead of scrolls. Pergamum eventually held over 200,000 volumes in its library.

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stanza31 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:52:47 MDT

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Admire that engineering...some more

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Admire that engineering

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View

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Poppies growing among the rocks

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More arches than McDonald's

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View of the wall

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Some arches had storage underneath

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stanza31 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:51:24 MDT

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This city would have been impossible to build before the Roman arch.

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stanza31 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:51:12 MDT

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Looking down on the site where the Temple to Zeus stood. This is where the temple stood which is now in the Berlin Museum having been moved there with the Ottoman's permission in the late 19th C. This Temple is what the Apostle John referred to as "Satan's seat" in Rev Chap 2.

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stanza31 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:50:26 MDT

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Joan and Cigdem entering the theater through the Byzantine tower. David taking the picture inside the tower looking toward the theater.

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More of the theater with the temple area in the background

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Joan and Cigdem in the theater. You have to believe they occasionally lost the spectator, especially the non-sober one, who pitched head-long.

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stanza31 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:49:40 MDT

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The theater of Pergamum had the steepest pitch of any in the ancient world.

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stanza31 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:49:24 MDT

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These arches are thousands of years old.

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Admiring the architecture

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Probably an idol location

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Pergamum was the third city of Revelation Chap 2, after Ephesus and Smyrna (modern Izmir), and followed by Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphis and Laodicea. All 7 cities formed a circuit around a small region along the west coast of the Anatolian peninsula (on or near the Aegean Sea). Each place would have been well known to the Apostle John who lived and discipled in Ephesus and was imprisoned on the Roman penal colony island of Patmos, off shore of Ephesus.