Pisidia
Wo was who in the Roman Empire: Pisidia
Antioch of Pisidia
"Archaeologists had long been fascinated by the discovery of sixty fragments of a copy of the famous Res Gestae Divi Augusti at Antioch,a military base and eastern outpost of Roman civilization under the Emperor Augustus. The original inscription had been set up in bronze in front of the mausoleum of the Emperor Augustus in Rome to commemorate his noble deeds but had been lost in the passage of time.The copy at Antioch of Pisidia had apparently been inscribed in stone in a prominent position in the ancient town to extol Augustus to his subjects in the Eastern Roman Empire." Courtesy of the Kelsey Online.
Antioch of Pisidia:
The University of Michigan's 1924 Archaeological Expedition
"This website presents a sample of the papers and publications about the expedition and its findings. The original papers are housed at the Bentley Historical Library. The photographic archive and associated documentation is housed at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, and consists of photographs in a variety of camera formats taken by several different expedition photographers in 1924. The Kelsey Museum also has a small number of artifacts from the site accessioned within its holdings."
Pisidian Antioch
"Seventeen ancient cities in Turkey were named Antioch, but only two are remembered by any but scholars today. One is Antakya
and the other is Antioch in Pisidia, Yalvac. Both figure largely in ancient and early Christian history, and the latter in particular is celebrated for its architecture." Courtesy of Burak H. Sansal.
Pisidian Antioch
"Pisidian Antioch was was situated near the Anthius River, on fertile land, in the extreme northeast of Phrygia near Pisidia; the name that Strabo gives to the city is Antioch near (or towards) (pros) Pisidia (Geography, 12.6.4; Ptolemy, Geography, 5.)."
Ancient coins of Pisidia
"The district of Pisidia included all the mountainous country between Phrygia and the north of Pamphylia and north-east of Lycia. Pisidia was not civilized in early times, as it possessed no means of communica- tion with the sea, and the only town in the district which struck money before the time of Alexander the Great was Selge."
Province of Pisidia.
"Pisidia is situated in Asia Minor, inland from Pamphylia, between that district and Phrygia. It is mountainous country, and was sparsely settled before the time of Alexander. The inhabitants were resistant to conquest and civilization alike, and not until Roman times was order imposed there. Two cities, Etenna and Selge, issued coins before 100 BC; 32 minted in the second century AD."
Sagalassos; Archaeology's Interactive Dig
"The archaeological site of Sagalassos is located in SW-Turkey, near the present town of Aglasun (Burdur province), roughly 110 km to the north of the well-know port and holiday resort Antalya. As a result of this location, Sagalassos not only has become part of most 'cultural tours' of Turkish tourism, but also has become a favourite day excursion from the coastal resorts. In ancient times, the western part of the Taurus mountain range, in which Sagalassos is set, was known as the region of Pisidia. Next to its mountains, a series of lakes form another typical feature of the regional geography. Today this region is known as the Lake District."
City in the Clouds
"In 1706, Paul Lucas, traveling in southwest Turkey on a mission for the court of Louis XIV, came upon the mountaintop ruins of Sagalassos. The first Westerner to see the site, Lucas wrote that he seemed to be confronted with remains of several cities inhabited by fairies. Later, during the mid-nineteenth century, William Hamilton described it as the best preserved ancient city he had ever seen. Toward the end of that century, Sagalassos and its theater became famous among students of classical antiquity. Yet large scale excavations along the west coast at sites like Ephesos and Pergamon, attracted all the attention. Gradually Sagalassos was forgotten...until a British-Belgian team led by Stephen Mitchell started surveying the site in 1985." Excerpted from InteractiveDig, produced by Archaeology Magazine© 2003 Archaeological Institute of America.
Sagalassos
"The Leuven Research & Development Sagalassos Division is an interdisciplinary research group, which focuses on the archeaological site of Sagalassos in Turkey. The division comprises at the moment the VISICS group of the Centre for Processing Speech and Images and the Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project within the Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology group."
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