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Sagalassos, Favorite Town of Roman Emper-
ors is now at Yapı Kredi Museum

Yapı Kredi Cultural Activities, Arts and Publishing Inc. is host-
ing the exhibition “Meanwhile in the Mountains: Sagalassos”.
Occupying three floors at Yapı Kredi Cultural Centre in Beyoğlu,
the exhibition introduces visitors to the ancient city of Sagal-
assos, founded on the southern slopes of the Taurus mountain
range, and the history of the region of Pisidia. Turkey’s most
comprehensive archaeological project carried out in recent
years, “Meanwhile in the Mountains: Sagalassos” is the result
of a collaboration of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the
Directorate General for Cultural Heritage and Museums and KU
Leuven University, Belgium, and their support of the Sagalassos idia from different periods, shed a light on the past and the daily
Archaeological Research Project. Displaying 368 objects from and social life of the residents of ancient Sagalassos and these
Burdur Archaeology Museum, the exhibition is open to visitors can be viewed in chronological and thematic sections covering
at Yapı Kredi Cultural Centre 27 November 2019 – 28 May three floors at the Yapı Kredi Cultural Centre.
2020. One of the best-preserved ancient cities of the Mediterra-
nean, Sagalassos is included in the Tentative List of UNESCO Visitors Will Be Welcomed by Rome’s Last Good Emperor
World Heritage Sites.
At the entrance of the museum visitors will be received by the
From Statues of Gods and Goddesses to Mammoth Bones… statue of emperor Marcus Aurelius that was unearthed at the
Roman Baths at Sagalassos. Originally approximately five me-
The exhibition, “Meanwhile in the Mountains: Sagalassos”, ters high and carved in white marble; the head, arms and legs
contains many and divergent historical objects: from mammoth are displayed at the exhibition. The restoration of the Antonin
bones from the Burdur region proving that they lived in prehis- Fountain at Sagalassos, which was built in the reign of Marcus
torical Anatolia, to the massive statues of the Roman emperors Aurelius, was completed in 2010. The head of Emperor Hadrian,
Marcus Aurelius and Hadrian. Objects like the terracotta figu- who named Sagalassos as Pisidia’s ‘first city’, can also be seen at
rines of gods, goddesses and heroes reflecting belief rituals, a the exhibition. The emperors Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius are
statuette of Alexander the Great, stone tools, decorative items, among Rome’s Five Good emperors.
cooking and food vessels from Sagalassos and the region of Pis-

Woman at Point Zero

The play “Woman at Point Zero” will meet with the audience at
Caddebostan Culture Center, Saloon A, on March 29.
Can a person be born twice?

Can she overcome all the powers controlling her life, body, and
self to create a new body, a new life for herself; going even be-
yond that self?
Based on Nawal El Saadawi’s meeting with a female prisoner
in Qanatir Prison -on a visiting day- and witnessing the last mo-
ments of her life, Firdaus’s story is now being opened to the au-
dience on a theater stage.

“I am speaking the truth now without any difficulty. For the
It is a life story, transferred to the only place it can stay. A story truth is always easy and simple. And in its simplicity lies a savage
transferred to a person’s memory, just one step before the finale, power. I only arrived at the savage, primitive truths of life after
just before going to “the place where nobody knows”… years of struggle. For it is only very rarely that people can arrive
Firdaus is looking to find her way in a desert where she suddenly at the simple, but awesome and powerful truths of life after only
falls from the sky, or emerges from seven levels underground. a few years.”
This desert is close enough to us…