Priene

Priene, anciently one of the 'twelve' cities of Ionia, stood a little NW. of the mouth of the Mæander in Caria. Here in the second half of the 19th century the remains of an elegant Ionic temple to Athene Polias were examined by an agent of the British Society of Dilettanti, who carried off and gave to the British Museum the stone bearing the inscription that recorded its dedication by Alexander the Great. See Antiquities of Ionia, part iv. (1882).