Yumurtalik – Ayas (Aegeae), Asia Minor
•People use the Greek name Ayas, instead of the Turkish, which means an "island with castle"
•Pictures with church walls made up of old pillars- ancient Aigaiai
•Dioskourides (active 65 – 30 BC) a Greek master from Aigeai is one of the few gem carvers recorded in ancient literature. He is mentioned by several Roman authors as the carver of the personal seal of the emperor Augustus (ruled 27 BC – 14 AD). Dioskourides’ fame led later carvers to copy his works and forge his signature
•Constantine ordered the destruction of the temple of Asclepios at Aigeai in Cilicia. The local bishop stripped the temple of its exterior colonnade and reused it to build his church.
Ancient Master Carvers (from Getty Museum)
•Epimenes, Solon, Dioskourides and Gnaios. These carvers sometimes signed their work, but usually not.
•Epimenes : active around 500 BC
•Solon : active 70 – 20 BC worked in Roman imperial circles fashioning portraits of Augustus and his sister along with mythological figures. His signature preserved in 5 ancient gems including the Strozzi Medusa
•Dioskourides and sons: this intaglio showing Diomedes stealing the Palladion (a talismanic statuette of Athena) is among the finest of all gems that survive from antiquity. In a field of just a few cm. He convincingly rendered details of a dynamic, living body, clearly distinguishing skin, muscle, bones and even fingernails.
•His sons Eutyches, Hyllos and Herophilos followed him
•This cameo by Hyllos depicting a satyr shows the finely detailed carving that is characteristic of him
•Gnaios : although he signed in Greek, he had a Latin name. Active 40 – 20 BC.
This is also the place where Cosmas and Damian (became Saints) practiced medicine during the 2nd cent. AD
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