Image: Aphrodisias South agora and pool 056

Description: From a vantage point to the southeast (probably the north top edge of the Theatre cave) we here see the area where now the whole pool has been excavated, most of the agora, and in the left top corner the Hadrian Baths. On Google Maps a large space is taken up by a 170m-long pool, that is (in June 2020) wrongly identified as the stadium (I have informed Google). The actual stadium is in a more probable position, to the north of town. That the pool is visible on a satellite picture is thanks to “The Mica and Ahmet Ertegün South Agora Pool Project, which began in 2013 with an outstanding promise by Mrs. Ertegün of five years of funding to excavate the pool and to research its complex character, long life, and its functional operation. The excavation, supervised by Professor Andrew Wilson, was completed in August 2017, and brought an abundance of remarkable results and important finds, from Roman to Ottoman times.” (quote from Aphrodisias Excavations). The pictures I took in 2011 show the area around this pool, some of the north and south side, and many of the west side. Some were taken from afar, and show the colonnades around the pool, as well as the Hadrian Baths at the west side of the agora. I took some pictures in an area to the southwest of the pool, that maybe belonged to a basilica that’s there. GPS makes it possible to identify most locations. At the time of my last visit in 2011 a lot was still waiting further excavations and restoration.
Title: Aphrodisias South agora and pool 056
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Author: Dosseman
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