Temple of Zeus, Aizanoi

Ruins from the Temple of Zeus, situated upon a hill as the city's main sanctuary in Aizanoi or Aezani, a city in the Antiquity, located in what is now Çavdarhisar, Kütahya Province. These are the examples of the Roman architecture in the city besettled by the ancestors of the Phrygians, the Kingdom of Pergamum and the Kingdom of Bithynia during the Hellenistic period, before being conqured by Rome in 133 BC. Marbel ornaments show the traces of monumental buildings date from the early Empire to the 3rd century. Aezani is spread out over a vast area each side of the road, but it is the Temple of Zeus built by Hadrian in 125 AD that dominates the site. As the finest surviving example this temple to the ‘God of Gods’ is truly impressive with an immense underground vault or sanctuary dedicated to Cybele whose well preserved bust stands at the foot of the temple mound. The temple is pseudodipteral, with eight columns at the ends and fifteen along the sides (35 m × 53 m (115 ft × 174 ft). Although it was damaged in a 1970 earthquake, it has been restored and well-preserved.135 film (36×24 mm