EAST PORTICO OF HIERAPOLIS STREET
The east portico of Hierapolis Street, a north-south main artery of Tripolis, was designed and built together with the street (Fig. 1). A stretch of 29.85 m length was excavated in 2013-2014 campaigns and in 2015, the total length exposed reached 54 m up to the south wall of the Structure with Podium (Fig. 2).
In addition to the two rooms uncovered previously in 2013-2014, two more rooms were excavated in 2015; these four rooms were possibly used as courtyards of the structure to the east (Fig. 3). Rooms 3 and 4 were created by partitioning the portico then serving as a courtyard and their floors are partially paved with terra cotta bricks and partially compressed earth, just like the floor of the two rooms uncovered previously (Fig. 4).
Room 3 measures 4.50x7.00 m on the interior and its floor is paved with terra cotta bricks of varying sizes. The room houses a platform furnished with one rectangular and one square basin placed on it and a cylindrical one placed in it to the north of the former two. Such arrangements in Room 3 suggests a function of work-area, possibly for producing olive oil or wine (Fig. 5). In addition, there is a playing board on a column capital (Fig. 6). Room 4 is located to the north of Room 3. Deterioration due to caving and slides is attested at places allover.