Since Augustus was considered the founder of the city, this temple dedicated to him was opened after 2 BC. BC and became the center of the city.

This podium temple was erected in front of a two-story semicircular portico and next to a large colonnaded courtyard. The temple was first excavated by Ramsay in 1912-14.

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Temple of Augustus and Sanctuary

A temple dominating the Yalvaç plain was built by carving the bedrock by removing the soil of the highest hill of the city. The lower floor (naos) of the cella is completely made of bedrock and the temple is prostylos style with four columns. Ribbed and drum columns are Corinthian heading. The frieze of the bull heads carrying girland was carved on the architrave with three fascia. An acanthus frieze surrouds the upper part of the cella wall. The perimeter of the temple area, which is entered from the propylon, is surrounded by a Doric stoa. The stoa, which is a single storey on the sides, has two storeys in the section forming a semicircle behind the temple. The rectangular nests in the rock are the places where the beams of the second floor are placed. The second floor of the stoa is in lonic order. This area and temple, where traces of the oldest beliefs of Anatolia are seen, were reorganized for the Emperor Augustus during the Roman Imperial Period

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