The ancient harbor city of Teos was one of the 12 cities that formed the Ionian League. The city was established and flourished on an isthmus near the modern village of Sigacık in the district of Seferihisar in Izmir. It was not before the 1960s that the excavations and research work were realised in Teos by Turkish scientists. Between 1962 and 1967, Yusuf Boysal and Baki Ogun, both academics from Ankara University, did excavations and research at several ruins such as Dionysos Temple, Hellenistic Walls, Agora and Bouleuterion as well as Akropolis, Theatre and Nekropolis. Between 1980 and 1992 Duran Mustafa Uz, an academic and architect, carried out limited digging work both at Dionysos Temple and Akropolis, as a result of which he wrote his doctorate thesis titled “Dionysos Temple in Teos”. Between 1993 and 1996 Numan Tuna from the Middle East Technical University performed surface work in the site for a short time span. Excavation, research, preservation and restoration activities that were reinitiated in 2010 are being carried out under the direction of Musa Kadioglu, academic at the Department of Classical Archaeology of Ankara University’s Language, History and Geography Faculty. In 2018 Isbank committed to support the archaeological excavations in Teos for 5 years, during which time it is aimed to completely unearth the Dionysos Temple, one of the most important structures in Teos with a location within the Hellenistic Walls.
