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(Yeni Şafak Newspaper, 29 October 2025)
When you build a foundation, a rock is a rock.
In Yarışlı village in Burdur province's Yeşilova district, which is near
to the Takina Antique City and Lake Salda, villagers took rocks from
the ancient town to build their homes in the 1950s.
In 1970, archaeologists identified a message from Roman Emperor
Caracalla, who ruled between 198 and 217 AD, on one of the rocks.
Ten such "Roman rocks" in the house's foundation have been
documented by the Burdur Museum Directorate, which had told
the village chief and the homeowner that if and when the house is
torn down the museum will take care of the "Roman rocks". No
one is currently living in this house.
Probably a lawyer's shingle.
Ferhat Ağıl (65) said that his father-in-law related the story of the
house's construction and he explained that: "I married his daughter
in 1988 and he gave this house to us. When my wife died, the house
was put in our daughter's name."
"The rocks for the foundation were brought here by my in-laws from
a place we call "Asar Tepe". About 22 years ago, a message came
from the museum telling us we had to watch over the rocks until
the house was torn down. At one time, archeologists came from
Istanbul and they told me that these rocks are from Roman times."
"My in-laws were living in this house during the 1971 earthquake.
The rocks had been brought by horse-carts because when the
house was built, only a few people had tractors. The rocks with
writing on them were placed facing the road and then their value
was noticed. I haven't seen such rocks anywhere else."
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