ENTRY TYPE
Buildings |
SUMMARY
The Commercial (Tetragonos) Agora of Ephesus dates from the period the city was refounded by Augustus and succeeded the respective administrative Agora of Hellenistic Ephesus. It was near the harbour and served as the commercial centre of the city. It included a square court closed on all sides by colonnades, behind which laid shops and workshops. The best preserved gate was on the southern side and had been dedicated by two wealthy Imperial freedmen, Mazaeus and Mithradates, in 3 or 2 BC. Apart from this gate there were two more gates in the Agora, a monumental propylon on the western side and a much more simply constructed gate on the northern side. |
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