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Fig. 46 Caesarea Maritima, porticoed street rebuilt in the sixth century. Shops and, on the right side,
the offices of the Archive Building open behind the portico. The central street is paved with slabs
and the covered passages have mosaic pavements. (After Holum (1988) fig. 128)
modest dimensions were set up on main streets in Ephesus – one in front
of the stadium, the other on the Embolos, at the top of which was also set
up in the fifth or sixth century a marble arch decorated in relief with
Victories. 17
At Gerasa, inscriptions attest to the construction of a stoa in 447 and a
rebuilding of at least parts of the porticoed cardo to the north and south of
the south tetrapylon in 513–30. Antioch’s porticoed cardo was rebuilt on a
large scale in 540, and at Caesarea in Palestine a secondary porticoed cardo
was rebuilt in the sixth century (Fig. 46). To the north-east of this area, near
the former temple of Hadrian, another public complex with stairs, an arch
and a new pavement was rebuilt in the later sixth century, and two large
statues set up, one a second-century portrait of Hadrian. Similar contemporary
urban renewal occurred at Scythopolis in Palaestina Secunda, where
in 507 a porticoed exedra ringed with shops and embellished with marble
was built on Palladius Street (Fig. 47c). Excavations at Tsaricin Grad,
identified as Justiniana Prima, have revealed a porticoed main street and a
circular piazza with remains of a bronze statue of Justinian(?), as well as
baths and churches, all built in the sixth century (Fig. 41). 18
17 Foss (1979) 46–80.
18 Gerasa, Caesarea, Antioch: Mango, M. M. (1984) Gazetteer, i.a.1 430; vii.a.1562, 568; vii.a.7 447;
Holum (1988) 174–6, 179–80, 186–7; Scythopolis: Tsafrir and Foerster (1997) 113–14, 121–2, 130;
Cariçin Grad: Bavant, Kondic, Spieser (1990) 303–15.
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