SOUTH PART OF THE AGORA
An east-west gallery-like area extends between the southern platform with rows of seating and the Early Byzantine fortification wall. It measures 38x4.95 m on the inside and extends like a portico along the agora. This slim and long hall opens to the west stoa of the agora on the west and it is bounded with walls on the remaining three sides: on its south runs the fortification wall; on its north is the platform with rows of seating; on its east is another north-south wall.
Excavations in this area, which may be called the south portico of the agora, brought to light remains of structures dating to the fourth-fifth centuries AD, built on top of Roman period shops of average 4.60 m in width. These shops should have been built in the north portico of the Colonnaded Street during the first and second centuries AD (Fig. 1). Similar shops were also excavated on the eastern part of the Colonnaded Street. Four adjoining shops were uncovered (Fig. 2). The easternmost one had served as an archive room (Fig. 3), the two westernmost shops were subdivided by an east-west wall, creating four new rooms (Fig. 4).
