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Sagalassus

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Sagalassos (Greek Σαγαλασσός): Hellenistic and Roman city in Pisisia (southwestern Anatolia); modern Ağlasun.

The hill on which the Sagalassians defended thei city against Alexander the Great

Already mentioned in Hittite sources of the fourteenth century BCE (Salawassa)
334/333 BCE: Alexander the Great (text)
Seleucid period: temple for Apollo (= Sozon)
Other Hellenized indigenous gods for Zeus, Athena, Heracles, Hermes
Some other gods, like Men, retained their ancient names
After 188 BCE: part of the Pergamene Empire
c.100 BCE: Bouleuterion
s.I BCE: Doric temple (probably dedicated to Zeus)

There are 4 items in Sagalassus - sag2:

Antonine Nymphaeum

At the Lower Agora, the temple of Apollo is rededicated to house the emperors too
During the reign of Antoninus Pius, a special temple for the imperial cult
At the same time: several new monuments like the Antonine Nymphaeum, with splendid sculpture
Introduction of the cults of Isis and Sarapis
Christianity becomes popular in the fourth century; there is a Byzantine church
c. 400 CE: Fortifications
Earthquake in 518; Justinian's Plague in 541-543
Abandoned c.650 CE

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Sagalassus, Antonine Nymphaeum, Western tabernacle, statue of Dionysus	Sagalassus, Byzantine Church	Sagalassus, Heroon	Sagalassus, Heroon, Relief
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