Tetragonos Agora - The Commercial Market. 에베소(Ephesus)

Tetragonos Agora - The Commercial Market.

에베소(Ephesus). 터키(Turkey)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Commercial Market was already founded in the 3rd century B.C. Its visible form goes back to an expansion under Emperor Augustus (27 B.C. - A.D. 14) into a square ensemble (side lengths 154 m) with three gates in the north, west & south, a central courtyard (side length 112 m) enclosed on all sides by two-aisled, two-storey halls with business & administrative office. To the east, on the 'Marble Street', a two-aiseld Doric basilica was built in the upper storey of the Agora during Emperor Nero's reign (A.D. 54-68); this probably functioned as a justice court. After a devastating earthquake at the end of the 4th century A.D., a completely new renovation took place of all the main structural elements of the Agora, using architectural pieces form throughout Ephesos. In the 6th century A.D., the northern hall received a tremendous retaining wall, instead of its rear rooms, against the artificial hill lying behind it (today the headquarters of the gendarmerie barracks).

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<Ground plan of the Agora (1st half of the 1st century A.D.)>

 

<View of the Agora from the east (2009)>

<View of the section of the Hellenistic West>

<West Gate, resconstruction of George Niemann>

 

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