The Antonine Nymphaeum at Sagalassos
Posted on 07/28/2008 6:36:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Water will run down from the Antonine Nymphaeum, a monumental fountain located on the north of the ancient city of Sagalassos near Aglasun town of the southwestern Turkish province of Burdur, after some 1300 years.
In an exclusive interview with the A.A, Semih Ercan said on Friday that restoration works on the fountain dated to the reign of Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 161-180) were expected to finish in 2010.
Ercan, who heads the restoration works, said, "the fountain with a height of 10 meters and width of 30 meters, is one of the most splendid structures in the ancient city. It was rebuilt after the massive earthquake in the early sixth century CE. But the second quake around the middle of the seventh century destroy the monumental fountain together with the whole city. Remains of the fountain was first brought to light by Prof. Dr. Marc Waelkens of the Belgian Katholieke Universiteit Leuven."
"We are restoring the fountain by joining together some 3,500 broken pieces. Restoration works will end in 2010 and water will run down from the ancient fountain again after some 1300 years," he said.
Sagalassos is an archaeological site in southwestern Turkey. In Roman Imperial times, the town was known as the 'first city of Pisidia'. The urban site was laid out on various terraces at an altitude between 1400 and 1600 m. Inhabitants were forced to abandon their city after a devastating earthquake around the middle of the seventh century.
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Rise and Fall of SagalassosIn 189 B.C. Roman armies under the command of Cn. Manlius Vulso marched against the Gauls of Asia Minor. Their journey took them through the territory of the Sagalassians, whose city, Sagalassos, was one of the wealthiest in the region of Pisidia. Located on alpine terraces beneath two mountain peaks known today as the Tekne Tepe and the Cincinkirik Tepe, it was divided into an upper and a lower city, each with an agora surrounded by porticoes and public monuments. Despite its splendor, Sagalassos is rarely mentioned by Roman historians. By the thirteenth century it had disappeared entirely from written records, its ruins and even its name forgotten.
by Marc Waelkens
Last year they discovered a colossal head of Hadrian, now the centerpiece of an exhibition at the British Museum in London through October 28, 2008.
There is no doubt about the identity of the emperor the statue depicted--it's a young Hadrian (r. A.D. 117-138), who introduced the curly hair and beard of the Greek philosophers, breaking with the tradition of his clean shaven predecessors with their short haircuts. The absence of any indication of either iris or pupil is also a sign of an early date. Whereas the beard is still exclusively carved with a chisel, the drill makes its appearance in the curls of the hair. The statue is clearly inspired by one of the eight official statue types of Hadrian, in this case the Chiaramonti type (named for a portrait in the Vatican). The yellowish patina of the white marble seems to point to Dokimeion (Iscehisar near Afyon, some 350 km to the north). There can be no doubt that the sculptor as well came from one of the major sculpture workshops of Anatolia, possibly Dokimeion again.
Quite extraordinary. At the baths they have identified three caldaria, two tepidaria, and two frigidaria so far.
It's great to see work on this wonderful site, since for so many decades, emphasis has been on the coastal sites.
Nice pics. One thing that bothers me... if the water just started flowing again, where have they been going to the bathroom for 1300 years?
City in the Clouds (Sagalassos, ancient city in Turkey)
Archaeology | July 2003-August 2004 | Marc Waelkens and Tijl Vereenooghe
Posted on 08/01/2004 1:17:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1183007/posts
Major Find At Sagalassos (Colossal Statue - Hadrian)
Archaeology Magazine | 8-3-2007
Posted on 08/03/2007 11:26:56 AM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875940/posts
and:
Roman Brooch find in Shetland extends ancient travel routes
the herald(uk) | 11JULY03 | Stephen Stewart
Posted on 07/11/2003 7:21:17 PM PDT by WoofDog123
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/944681/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/944681/posts?page=11#11
The Turks seem to be doing better at preserving pre-Islamic artifacts than they used to, and better than the mesopotamians and north Africans not in Egypt.
A lot of recent articles have contained at least one quote from someone involved with the dig that’s discussed in them, to the effect that one goal is to bring in the tourists. Turkey has a *lot* of sites that could do that, y’know, assuming people are willing to risk getting murdered by Islamic terrorists. And of course for every success story...
“King’s” villas cause outrage [Caria, in modern Turkey]
Voices Newspaper | Saturday, May 17, 2008 | editor
Posted on 05/17/2008 11:11:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2017581/posts
Beats the heck out of the Taliban and the Bactrian giant Buddhas.
Or the breaking up of the Moabite stone (due to a disagreement over the split of the payment). Or Pol Pot’s burning of the Khmer books. Or the destruction of the Mayan codices, for that matter.
IMHO destruction of the Mayan death cult was fine, destroying the writings was a serious error.
I agree. Of course, the diseases which were inadvertently introduced took care of the death cult anyway. :’)
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