Ephesus - Lower Agora

Southwest of the Great Theater in Ephesus is the Lower Agora, a spacious square, 116m/127ft each way, from which a colonnaded street leads west. The agora (market square), which has been only partly excavated, was a third century rebuilding of an earlier structure, to which the use of stone from earlier buildings gives an interesting variety of detail. It was surrounded by a double colonnade housing shops and offices, with a set-back upper storey on the east side.