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Modern Description: Savatra was situated in the foothills of the Boz Dağ range, on the edge of the Lykaonian steppe, at the modern village of Yağlıbayat. The town is mentioned in passing by Strabo (12.6.1) apropos of the scarcity of water in Lykaonia. Ruins of the ancient settlement were still visible in 1901, when the site was visited by William Ramsay, H. S. Cronin and G. A. Wathen: ‘The yaila [Yağlıbayat] lies almost in the centre of an amphitheatre of hills, a short way only up the slope of its eastern side. For a considerable distance in every direction – towards the west for upwards of a mile – the hills were covered with ruins. On the hill to the extreme west, called Maltepe, were the ruins of a temple. East of Maltepe, about half a mile west of the yaila, were the ruins of a small theatre looking east. In the low ground, immediately west of the yaila, we could trace along the road which led to Konia the sites of several public buildings.’ The cavea of the theatre and traces of other ruins are still clearly visible on satellite photographs of the region.
Trismegistos Geo: 16164

Info: E. Tzavella 2012

Elissavet Tzavella, URBAN AND RURAL LANDSCAPE IN EARLY AND MIDDLE BYZANTINE ATTICA (4TH – 12TH C. AD), PhD dissertation, Univ. of Birmingham 2012, https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/16292781.pdf

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