The 'Place of Palms': An Urban Park at Aphrodisias: Results of the Mica and Ahmet Ertegun South Agora Pool Project

by Ben Russell and Andrew Wilson

Excavations at Aphrodisias in the 1980s revealed an extraordinary monumental water-basin (170 x 30m) in the centre of a colonnaded square, formerly called the 'South Agora'. A hypothesis that the complex was not an agora at all but 'the place of palms' mentioned by a sixth-century benefactor in an inscription on its Propylon was demonstrated during a five-year excavation project - The Mica and Ahmet Ertegun South Agora Pool Project. This volume publishes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3752006927
• ISBN13: 9783752006926
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Dr Ludwig Reichert
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 6.70 lbs.