Sebaste (Selçikler)

An old settlement southwest of Sivaslı

Sebaste lies at present-day Selçikler, about two kilometres southwest of Sivaslı. Local official material notes settlement evidence reaching the Chalcolithic and layers associated with Hittite, Luwian, Lydian and Phrygian worlds, showing people lived in this transition landscape long before its Roman name.

Augustus's Sebaste

The Culture Portal states that Sebaste was founded by Augustus in 20 BCE and counted among the region's twelve important Roman cities. The North Gate, walls, Ionic temple, Temple of Claudius, stadium and bath remains invite us to consider multiple settings of public life in an imperial city together.

An episcopal centre and two churches

Sebaste became an episcopal centre in the ninth century and gained importance in the Byzantine period. Its two churches are not an 'extra' added to the Roman city; they are core evidence of how belief, community and urban fabric changed over time.

A large context for modest remains

Sebaste's visible components are dispersed stops: two churches, part of a bath, cemetery, three tumuli, gate, walls, temple and stadium fragments. As this page adds new excavation or conservation information with institutional sources, it will continue to join these elements within Uşak's network of valleys, routes and settlements.

Uşak's less visible scale

Together with Blaundos and Aizanoi, Sebaste shows that the Inner Aegean needs a narrative of smaller cities, religious centres and rural transitions as well as its largest monuments. The inventory layer will make each structure visible through individual historical-period, source, function and present-condition filters.

Connected stops

• Blaundos
• Aizanoi
• Frig Vadisi

Sources

• Kültür Portalı · Sebaste (Selçikler)