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OLYMPOS 3

OLYMPOS

REMAININGS AND ARTIFACTS

 

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Water Canals

Complex at entrance with 11 rooms, (Below) 

This complex of 11 rooms had a second floor and was probably used for dwelling, food production and trade in the 5th and 6th centuries. Is was built without a specific plan and sits on the northern border of an avenue through the old town.

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Ionic Temple, (Below)

TThere is a temple, of which mainly the cella door remained in situ to the delight of tourists. The structure is in Ionian style, has an "antis" plan and is dated to the 2nd century AD. A base of a sculpture found here mentions Marcus Aurelius, and the notice on site states it must have been built in his name (161-180 AD).

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Mosaic Building, (Below)

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