Smyrna

Published: 2026-10-01

Last modified: 2026-10-01

Place Description

On the Aegean coast of Anatolia, Smyrna was rebuilt after an earthquake in the 2nd century CE atop the area of the city first established after the conquest of Alexander the Great on the slopes of Mt. Pagos (Kadifekale). An inscription suggests the presence of a palm grove that was an elaborately decorated park, as noted at Aphrodisias. (Robert 526, n. 5 on IBR IV, 1431.)

Bibliography

L. Robert. Études Anatoliennes, Sur des inscriptions de l'Asie Mineure, 1937. (worldcat)

Places

Smyrna/Eurydikeia (Pleiades:550893)
Izmir (inhabited place) (TGN:7002543)
Asia (Roman Province) (Pleiades:981509)
Asia Minor (general region) (TGN:7002294)

1 garden article in Smyrna has been published:

A reused rectangular marble block from Smyrna housed since the middle of the eighteenth century in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford records, in a secondary text carved lengthwise ...