&nbsp;Urban Plan of Ancient City of Philadelphia

Updated Dec. 1, 2023

Map 8: Laodicea

Urban Plan of Ancient City of Laodicea

Based on the latest discoveries by Pamukkale University, University of Venice and Denizli University.

1). Ephesus Gate
2). Hierapolis Gate
3). Syrian Gate and Byzantine Nymphaeum
4). Stadium
5). Gymnasium/Bath complex
6). Civic agora
7). Bouleuterion
8). Ephesus Porticos
9). N. Theater
10). W. Theater
11). Monumental passage
12). Roman Bridge on Ephesian Street
13). Water Tower I
14). East Baths
15). West Baths
16). Central Baths
17). Caracalla Nymphaeum
18). Temple A
19). North Church
20). SW Church
21). NW Church
22). Aphrodisian Gate
23). W agora, Temple and W. Nymphaeum
24). Water Tower II
25). Central agora
26). Byzantine walls
27). Nymphaeum A
28). Roman villa
29). N. Workshop
30). SW Temple
31). Round Pytaneion
32). NW Byzantine Gate
33). S. Nymphaeum
34). Laodicea Church
35). Nymphaeum B, latrine and water storage
36). Stadium Church; 37). E. Byzantine Nymphaeum
38). House A and street water distribution center
39). Asopos I–II
40). North state agora

Map of the modern area around Laodicea

It indicates the location of ancient sites, the location of the existing and proposed aqueduct, and the thermal and cold springs.

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Map 6: Sardis

Urban Plan of Ancient City of Sardis

1). Bath-Gymnasium
2). Synagogue
3). Byzantine Shops
4). Lydian Gate
5). Cybele Altar, Lydian Gold Refinery and Byzantine Churches
6). Temple of Artemis
7). Stadium
8). Theater
9). Temple of the Imperial Cult
10). Temple?
11). Temple?
12). Bath
13). Tower
14). Sanctuary of Demeter
15). Byzantine church
16). Terrace

Floor plan of the Bath-Gymnasium Complex at Sardis

1). Palaestra
2). Marble courtyard
3). Frigidarium
4). Tepidarium
5). Caldarium
6). Latrine
7). Synagogue
8). Forecourt
9). Twenty-seven Byzantine shops
10). Marble road

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Map 4. Pergamum

Plan of Ancient Pergamum Asclepeion

The Sanctuary of Asclepios Soter (lower tall)

1). Small theater
2). North Stoa
3). Small Library
4). Via Tecta, Colonnaded Sacred Way leading to the Acropolis
5). Propylaeum and Forecourt
6). Cult niche
7). Temple of Asclepius
8). Treatment center
9). Cryptopoticus, a vaulted underground tunnel
10). South Stoa
11). Latrines
12). Southwest Hall
13). West Stoa
14). Hellenistic temple and Sacred Spring
15 & 16). Incubation complex
17). Pool
18). Peristyle House

The Upper Tall

A model of the acropolis of the ancient Greek city of Pergamum, showing the situation in the second cent AD, by Hans Schleif (1902–1945).

Wladyslaw Sojka Wikimedia Commons labelled by Dr. David E. Graves

1). Theater
2). Trajaneium
3). Arsenal Terrance
4). Barraks
5). Palace
6). Citadel Gate
7). Heroon
8). Library
9). Athena Temple
10). Altar of Zeus
11). Upper agora
12). Dionysius Temple
13). Stoa Terrace

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Map 2: Ephesus

Urban Plan of Ancient City of Ephesus

1). Harbour gate
2). Warehouses
3). Street of Arcadius
4). Harbour baths
5). Harbour gym
6). Xystol of the Harbour gym
7). Church of Mary
8). Stoa of the Olympieion
9). Temple of Hadrian Olympios
10). Macellum
11). Vedius gym
12). North gate
13). Stadium
14). Fountain
15). Theater Gym
16). Theater
17). Hall of Nero
18). Commercial agora
19). Sarapeion
20). Library of Celsus
21). Altar of Artemis
22). Hadrian’s gate
23). Latrine
24). Scholastikia baths
25). Temple of Hadrian
26). Heroon of Androklos and Arsinoë IV
27). Slope Houses
28). Fountain of Trajan
29). Temple of Domitian [Flavian Sebastoi]
30). State agora
31). Temple of Divius Julius and Deo Roma [Temple of Isis?]
32). Prytaneion
33). Peristyle
34). Odeon or Bouleuterion
35). Baslike Stao
36). Upper gym
37). East gym
38). Seven Sleepers
39). Kybele Sanctuary
40). Road to Artemision and Church of St. John

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Map 1: Seven Churches

Seven Churches & Asia Minor

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Maps Index

Maps

Seven Churches
Map of Ephesus (Rev 2:1–7)
Map of Smyrna (Rev 2:8–11). No map as ancient ruins encroached by modern city of Izmir.
Map of Pergamum (Rev 2:12–17)
Map of Thyatira (Rev 2:18–29). No map as ancient ruins encroached by modern city of Akhisar.
Map of Sardis (Rev 3:1–6)
Map of Philadelphia (Rev 3:7–13)
Map of Laodicea (Rev 3:14–22)

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