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About Podium Temple in Diokaisereia, The aim of this article is to offer a new date for building and suggestion to learn which god worshipped before. For suggestion new date has been benefit stilistic analyse of Corinth capitals. Using the inscription which obtained from the city for cult advise, explained in the time of it, with the political process in Rough Cilicia and being Roman city of Diokaisereia. Comprehend the suggestion of Wannagat for Podium Temple’s capitals, but wide range of time, its suggested 10 B.C. to 40-41 A.D. and its considered to fit in this times. After range of time which suggested for temple, has been receiving to attention that in Tiberius period settlements conversioned to Roman city with the name of Diokaisereia. With this information is clarified that tempel building suggestion in the period of Tiberian times. An inscription,obtained from the city, about they worshipped which god, is helped us to our suggestion for identification of worshipped thing.In this inscription Emperor Tiberius,God’s son, is remembered as the founder and saver of the city.This inscription thought as the emperor dedicated after his care and helps to the city and accepted as the evidence for Tiberius cult and suggested that the building is built for emperor’s cult in Podium Temple. There are other suggestions which supports the suggestion.There are important things about the vassalage kings and politics of emperor cults.Iudeia,vassalage kings of Rough in Cilicia and Mauretania, specially cared about founding emperor cults and temple buildings. In the term of vassalage king in Rough Cilicia, only emperor’s cult temples have been built.In consequence it is a strong possibility that the podium temple which we suggested above is one of them. Another feature of the Podium Temple in this study is the location in this city. It is an important choice that the location of the temple is next to Zeus Olbious Temenos and new city center built around.The distinct feature in here is the wall of Zeus Olbios Temenos and the back wall of the temple built as one.This situation compose an integrity with the new name of the city as‚“Diokaisareia”. The approach of this way, it had aimed that the faitfulness of the citizens to the emperor.

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