Hadrianic

The guide led us through the baths, which he referred to as Hadrianic – I suppose from the time of Hadrian whose wall we’d already been to.

Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007

The guide led us through the baths, which he referred to as Hadrianic – I suppose from the time of Hadrian whose wall we’d already been to.

Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007

The guide led us through the baths, which he referred to as Hadrianic – I suppose from the time of Hadrian whose wall we’d already been to.

Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007

The guide led us through the baths, which he referred to as Hadrianic – I suppose from the time of Hadrian whose wall we’d already been to.

Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007

Besides the 4 m tall hero occupying the Northwest Heroon (hero shrine) and the twice-life size statues of Dionysos from the mid-Antonine nymphaeum (fountain house) on the Upper Agora, there is a 5 m tall Apollo statue from the late Hadrianic nymphaeum above the city's Lower Agora.

Colossal Head of Roman Empress Unearthed 2008

Two pieces of an Aphrodite statue inside the Hadrianic nymphaeum's water basin

Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Lower Agora Report 12 2003

The Hadrianic nymphaeum (top) with remains of the Severan and Trajanic nymphaeum (bottom)

Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Lower Agora Report 12 2003

This week Erik Risser (Getty Museum), Nerina da Silva, Semra Mägele (University of Cologne and doctoral fellow at the KULeuven) and Melih Ekinci (ITU Istanbul) made a tremendous effort to complete three of the statues found inside the collapsed Hadrianic Nymphaeum above the Lower Agora, even sacrificing half of their weekend.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Statue Conservation Report 4 2003

During the second half of the week, the Lower Agora North team started concentrating on the Hadrianic nymphaeum on a terrace above and north of the two fountains on the Lower Agora's north side.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Lower Agora Report 12 2003

The new nymphaeum, dated to mid-Hadrianic times (ca. 128-138), clearly seems to have been one of the most magnificent, if not the most beautiful, fountain of the city.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Lower Agora Report 12 2003