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EPHESUS ANCIENT CITY

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Magnesian Gate East Gymnasium Early Christian Basilica St Luke’s Grave Bath of Varius State Agora Temple of Isis
Hydrekdocheion Basilica Odeon Temenos Prytaneion Domitian Square Temple of Domitian
Fountain of Pollio Memmius Monument Hercules Gate Curetes Street Fountain of Trajan Terrace Houses Scholastica Baths
Temple of Hadrian Latrines Octagon Brothel Heroon Hadrian's Gate Celsus Library
Gate of Mazeus Commercial Agora Temple of Serapis Marble Road Theatre Theatre Gymnasium Arcadian Street
Harbour Gymnasium Harbour Baths The Double Churches Stadium Vedius Gymnasium    
 
Arcadian Street (Harbor Street)

 

Arcadian Street

 

This street is situated between the Harbour Baths and the great theatre. Entering from the port, traders and sailors would first arrive in this street. So it was designed gorgeous with marbel slabs and colonnades. It was constructed in the Hellenistic Period, but then was restored during the reign of the Emperor Arcadius (395-408 AD.), from whom it takes its present name.

The street was 530 meters long and 11 meters wide, and on both sides of the street there were shops and galleries, and gates in the form of monumental arches. There were four higher columns with the statues of four apostels on the top.

It was one of the three lighted street at that time along with Rome and Antioch.50 streetlights lit up its colonnades and water, sewerage channels ran beneath the marble flagstones.

The first building near the theatre is called the Theatre Gymnasium.It is a Second Century AD building with two floors and numerous rooms.It was used for sports ground.

At the entrance of the port there were the Port Baths or the Harbour Baths.They were built in the year 2 AD.The Baths are also called the Baths of Constantine, for they were restored by Constantine II (337-361). It was one of the largest building with 160 m wide, 170 m long and 28 m high.