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Excavation ongoing places tagged “colophon” matching “Turkey”

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex

Oracle of Claros

Hellenistic to Late Roman ~300 BCE–395 CE · Greek (Colophonian) then Roman Ionian

Underground water-oracle of Apollo where prophet drank sacred pool to versify prophecies.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex

Sanctuary of Apollo at Claros — Southern Bay Complex

Late Classical to Roman (Hellenistic oracle peak) · Colophonian Greek under Persian and later Roman oracle administration

Claros oracular bay temple Ionic prostyle over sacred pool feeding chasm, oracle hydrology.