Aglasun, Turkey

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the pugnacious Sagalassians. The Romans wrested control of the town from the Seleucid Antiochos III in 189 B.C.; under Augustus it enjoyed a heyday, to which the ruins bear ample testimony. The site, comprising a lower and an upper town, is surrounded by several interesting necropolises (catacombs with arkosol tombs in the rock faces to the north; a number of sarcophagi on the slopes to the south; house tombs to the northeast). The temple precinct, on a plateau, with the Imperial temple of Antoninus Pius, is bordered by colonnades, as is the processional way leading to the lower agora. Other ruins include those of the temple of Apollo Clarius (later converted to a church), a nymphaeum, a therme, an odeion, the upper agora, a large theater dating from the second century and a Doric temple in antis next to which were found slabs decorated with reliefs of dancing girls (now in the local museum). Near Aglasun there is a Seljuk caravanserai (Aglasunhani).