HIERAPOLIS STREET AND EAST PORTICO
The restoration work at the Hierapolis Street continues with the decision of the Aydın Board for the Preservation of Cultural Properties no. 4319 dated 16 October 2015.
The east portico of Hierapolis Street is furnished with arrangements and rooms of the fifth and sixth centuries. The third room from the south has a hearth built mostly with bricks, travertine, marble and rubble in the northeast corner; the surface of the hearth was cleaned (Fig. 1).
The mortar lines of the late period wall extending between the columns of the east portico’s colonnade and the entrance to the Arched Building were cleaned and loose stones were consolidated using mortar conforming to the authentic quality (Fig. 2).
Restoration of the postaments for the statues erected in Hierapolis Street continued. The original blocks of the statue bases with or without inscriptions were placed on top of the bases on the platform consolidated with a mortar of sand, hydraulic lime and water lime (Fig. 3).