TÜRKIYE · ROMAN PERIOD (AUGUSTUS TO THE 9TH CENTURY AD)

Pessinus Archaeological Site

Πεσσινοῦς

Pessinus, at today’s Ballıhisar village 13 km south-west of Sivrihisar, was at its greatest in the reign of Augustus (27 BC–AD 14). The Temple of Augustus, Corinthian and ringed by columns, stood on a square lined by a stepped theatre, a bouleuterion, an agora and a colonnaded street. The finest early-imperial work here is a canal that brought water from the Gallos River down seven steps. The city faded in the 9th century AD and was later deserted.

Original name

Πεσσινοῦς

Country

Türkiye

Period

Roman Period (Augustus to the 9th century AD)

Civilisation

Roman

Location

39.3315° N, 31.5831° E Open in OpenStreetMap Open in Apple Maps

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