In the foreground: the modest remains of the Propylon, which was a monumental passage with three arches, connecting the imperial sanctuary of the Augusteum with the ‘Tiberia Platea’ (Tiberius Square).
From the Propylon a flight of stairs descended to this Square of Tiberius, in fact a street (11 m wide and 85 m long) decorated with colonnades and statues on both sides. In front of the Propylon, the street was enlarged and became a real square, 30 m wide. This place was the heart of urban life in its time.

Regarding the Tiberius Platea there is a sad story to be told. The name of the Platea is known from a famous inscription (now in the Afyon Museum) recording the edict governing the hoarding of grain made by L.Antistius Rusticus, Governor of Galatia-Cappadocia. Robinson and Ramsay, two archaeologists who had worked together during the 1924 excavations, published the inscription in the same year in different articles, each claiming the right of publication. This was the opening round in a series of increasingly vindictive publications by the two scholars. As a consequence of this quarrel the American expeditions did not return after 1924 and the well-shaped paving blocks of this ownerless area were pulled up and used for road building or for modern buildings in Yalvaç city, as late as the 1970s.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.
Sources: ‘Pisidian Antioch’ – Ünal Demirer, archaeologist. (Ankara, 1997)
& Personal visits (1994 – 2003).