Browsing by Author "Talloen, Peter"

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From Hellenistic neighbourhood to bath-gymnasium and beyond: The archaeology east of the Upper Agora of Sagalassos
(Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, Netherlands Institute for the Near East, 2023) Beaujean, Bas; Claeys, Johan; Daems, D.; Doperé, F.; Talloen, Peter; Poblome, J.
Thirty years of excavations and research have turned the Upper Agora area of Sagalassos into one of the best-studied public spaces and political civic centers of Roman poleis in Asia Minor. The area to its east was the last remaining piece of the puzzle to be studied. Between 2015-2021, a series of large-scale excavations obtained a wealth of archaeological evidence, ranging from a Hellenistic neighbourhood to the main gymnasium of the Roman polis, and its rearrangement in Late Antiquity. As a result, these excavations provided information about a wide range of aspects of life in Hellenistic, Roman Imperial, and Early Byzantine Pisidia. This paper presents the relevant evidence and discusses its possible interpretations, so that it can be used to contribute to larger debates and themes within Classical and Anatolian Archaeology.
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More water at Moatra: archaeology, geomorphology and toponymy in the territory of Sagalassos
(Akdeniz Universitesi * Akdeniz Dillerini ve Kulturlerini Arastirma Merkezi,Akdeniz University, Research Centre for Mediterranean Languages and Cultures, 2024-11-13) Talloen, Peter; Schürr, Diether; Vandam, Ralf
While evidence of ancient place names is a crucial element for our understanding of the historical landscape, many of those toponyms, other than those of major urban centres, have often disappeared in the course of history. The traditional localization of one such ancient toponym, Moatra in the territory of Sagalassos, at the present-day village of Bereket in the central district of Burdur Province (SW Türkiye) has recently been questioned. Allegedly, the vicinity of the modern village presents insufficient remains to support an identification of an ancient settlement there during the Roman Imperial period and this caused scholars to look for its location elsewhere in the area. This article presents an overview of the archaeological evidence from the Bereket intramontane basin and combines it with other strands of evidence to contest this new localization and explain why Moatra could not have been situated anywhere else but at Bereket. These arguments are based on the combination of the results of past and ongoing archaeological, geomorphological and paleo-environmental research, as well as toponymic study. These data help to shed light on the long occupation of the area and clarify the somewhat exceptional nature of the settlement of Moatra within the territory of Sagalassos, providing an outstanding example of how different disciplines can contribute to our understanding of the ancient settlement landscape and the human-environment relationship in the Late Holocene.
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The identity of Ionia
(Cambridge University Press, 2024-01-12) Talloen, Peter