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Another View on Late Antiquity: Sagalassos (SW Anatolia), its Suburbium and its Countryside in Late Antiquity

Summary. Survey evidence gathered in the city of Sagalassos (Pisidia, SW Turkey), its suburbs and its countryside has led to new insights into developments in the region in late antiquity. Coupled with the results from excavations, soundings, and interdisciplinary research, a reconstruction can be made of what happened during the last centuries of the city’s existence. Framing the observed changes in a larger chronological perspective, another view emerges on the fate of the city and its countryside in late antiquity. Terms such as ‘decline’, ‘fall’, and ‘transformation’ relate to cities and do not adequately describe the contemporary evolution in the countryside. An urgent call for rural surveys is advocated to avoid the perpetuation of the intellectual trap created by this urban-centred approach. SAGALASSOS AND ITS TERRITORY ARE located in the western Taurus Mountains, c.100 km north of the southern coast of Turkey, in what in ancient times was known as Pisidia (Figs G and 1.). The city’s remains extend over a c.80-ha undulating platform on the southern flank of the Ag ˘lasun Mountains, 7 km north of the modern-day village of Ag ˘lasun in the Turkish province of Burdur. At its apex in imperial times, the city’s territory extended over c.1,800 square km, encompassing a region stretching from lake Burdur at its western extent, east to the river Aksu, and from north to south from the Akdag ˘ to the hills south of the plains of Celtikci and Bag ˘saray (Waelkens et al. 1997a, 97–9; Waelkens et al. 2000a, 40, 175–6, 187–8, 211).