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Document Details : Title: The 2014 and 2015 Control Excavations on and around the Upper Agora of Sagalassos Subtitle: The Structural Remains and General Phasing Author(s): TALLOEN, Peter , POBLOME, Jeroen Journal: Anatolica Volume: 42 Date: 2016 Pages: 111-150 DOI: 10.2143/ANA.42.0.3178203 Abstract : The Upper Agora of the Pisidian city of Sagalassos represented the beating heart of the local community, in providing the stage for the familiar fusion of commerce, politics, administration and cult that characterised urban life in antiquity. The current state of the agora, as it has been unearthed by archaeologists, is the product of centuries of monumental accretion, re-arrangement, make-over and removal, making it an excellent platform for the diachronic study of urban development. In this sense, the Upper Agora constitutes an architectural manifestation of processes of urbanisation and community formation that occurred at this ancient settlement. In 2014, a two-year programme of control excavations was initiated in order to complete reconstructing the chronology of origin, construction and changes to the public square, as well as to finalise the excavation and study of the surrounding public buildings and monuments. It is the aim of this paper to present the preliminary results of these targeted small-scale excavations conducted during the campaigns of 2014 and 2015 in a sequence of seven chronological phases, representing the occupation history of the square and its immediate surroundings between the 3rd century BCE and the 7th century CE. |
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