Like many of the other ruins we visited, Hierapolis had a museum with various stonework and statues recovered during the excavations.
Leaving the museum, we walked as travelers would have along the main road towards the exit of the city.
Stoa, those markets and stalls we have come see in numerous other places.
Another Latrine:
The Frontinus Gate, dating from the 1st Century A.D.
The Roman Baths:
Unlike modern graveyards, ancient graveyards were put at the entrances to cities. Partially, of course, this helped reserve living space for living space. It also gave rise to the fact that one could advertise the glories of one's life in one's tomb as visitors entered the city, as well as to give those in the afterlife visibility to the physical world. The Necropolis of Hierapolis has over 15,000 tombs.
That's a lot of tombs! I'm guessing that a lot of the artifacts in the museum were found in the necropolis.
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