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View of the arches of Claudius and the honorific columns at the southern entrances to the Upper Agora, and the south façade of the adjacent Market Building to the right (B. Vandermeulen).
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In Antiquity, public space was used as part of the construction of cultural identities which could be mul-ti-faceted. The Upper Agora of the Pisidian city of Sagalassos (SW Turkey) was such a dynamic space with a rich collection of images, inscribed texts and monuments that contributed to the construction of local and regional identities. It was th...
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... buildings, stoa-like structures with rooms, located below and behind the colonnades, for the storing and exchange of (food) supplies (Köse 2005). A rectangular building with two storeys, delimiting the Upper Agora to the east, which is currently being investigated, has been identified as such a market building (Talloen -Poblome 2016: 118-119; Fig. 3). This type of structure, used not only for trade but also for the storage of local agricultural produce collected as taxes, indicates a well-organised society conversant with the principle of com- munal storage and redistribution. It illustrates how autarkeia or economic self-sufficiency was as much sought after by a city-state as ...
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... afterwards, at the beginning of our era, c. 12 m high honorific columns carry- ing statues of local noblemen were erected in the four corners of the square (Fig. 3). Such commemorative columns were used to honour achievements and to magnify the status of the honoured person whose statue was placed on top ( Waelkens et al. 2011: 84-87). Whether the monuments were granted to these members of the elite for their role in the rearrangement of the Upper Agora is not clear, but they are among to the ...
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... plethora of imperial sanctuaries, images and festivals (Talloen -Waelkens 2004). The Upper Agora was one of the main venues for this veneration as demonstrated by the two gates in the shape of a triumphal arch -a distinctively Roman structure -that were built in honour of the emperor Claudius at the southeast and southwest entrances to the square (Fig. 3). Typically, the friezes of the arches were decorated with symbols of military prowess, including a Macedonian shield, a helmet, a cuirass, a club and greaves, adding again some couleur locale to this imperial monument. The Sagalassians thus combined their legendary past with the recognition of the imperial present. Others imperial ...
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... The Upper Agora of Sagalassos was the city's beating heart in matters of politics, religion and commerce (Talloen 2017; Beaujean -Talloen 2019; Fig. 1). The original, Hellenistic agora was a modest square of approximately 25m (E-W) by 40m (N-S) or 1000m² with a surface of beaten earth, adjoined to the east by the so-called Agora Building, both dating to the first half of the 2 nd century BCE. ...
Abstract
The water supply network and its management at the Pisidian city of Sagalassos (SW Turkey) are relatively well-known but recent archaeological research has uncovered further remains of this supply network which not only add to our understanding of the network itself but also of its impact on the cityscape. An Early Roman Imperial fountain built on the newly organised Upper Agora of Sagalassos was the result of the combination of traditional form and innovate city-scaping. The new fountain did not merely supply water to the urban populace. Through its prominent situation within the urban landscape it offered a visual statement of the amenities which the city provided. The construction of the monumental fountain also signalled an important change in the public use and display of water. In the end, the fountain gave way to the Antonine Nymphaeum, as part of a developing urban landscape with the intention to surpass the existing monument with a new template of representation.
Keywords
Water supply – Fountain – Monumentalization – Sagalassos – Pisidia
Özet
Pisidia kenti Sagalassos'taki su tedarik ağı ve yönetimi nispeten iyi biliniyor ancak son arkeolojik araştırmalar, bu tedarik ağının yalnızca ağın kendisini anlamamıza değil, aynı zamanda kentsel peyzaj üzerindeki etkisine de katkıda bulunan kalıntılarını ortaya çıkardı. Yeni düzenlenen Sagalassos Yukarı Agorası üzerine inşa edilen Erken Roma İmparatorluk çeşmesi, geleneksel biçim ve yenilikçi şehir manzarasının birleşiminin sonucuydu. Yeni çeşme sadece şehir halkına su sağlamadı. Kentsel peyzaj içinde öne çıkan konumu sayesinde, şehrin sağladığı imkanların görsel bir ifadesini sunuyordu. Anıtsal çeşmenin inşası aynı zamanda halkın kullanımı ve suyun teşhir edilmesinde önemli bir değişime işaret ediyordu. Sonunda çeşme, mevcut anıtı yeni bir temsil şekliyle geliştirme niyetiyle, gelişen kentsel peyzajın bir parçası olarak yerini Antonine Çeşmesi’ne bıraktı.
Anahtar kelimeler
Su temini - Çeşme - Anıtsallaştırma - Sagalassos - Pisidia
The Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project has a long history of archaeological
survey research that aims to contribute to the project’s mission of documenting the long-term human-environment interactions in its study region (SW Turkey). Over the years, different methodologies, ranging from reconnaissance surveys to intensive tract walking, have been implemented according to the different research questions and scales of examination of our project. In addition, the survey designs had to meet various landscape units of the research area within the Western Taurus Mountains and thus had to deal with different terrain conditions, rates of accessibility and visibility. In this paper we present how we approached the archaeological survey research at Sagalassos and how it developed through time. Via this retrospective view we want to shed light on the merits and shortcomings of our survey research, and what paths we want to set out for our future research.
