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Bouleuterion or Council House, the marble altar at the center of the Bouleuterion (thought to have been built in the 2C BCE and decorated with wreaths tied with bull's heads); Priene was an ancient Greek city in W Asia Minor; under Roman & Byzantine rule before being subjugated by the Turks in the 13th century. Source: Thesaurus of Geographic Names (Notes) [website]; http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/ (accessed 2/14/2008)