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A cop shuffled in place under the portico's hanging light, apparently nervous about calling on a member of the upper class, Jack frowning through a gap in the music-room drapes.
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A cop shuffled in place under the portico's hanging light, apparently nervous about calling on a member of the upper class, Jack frowning through a gap in the music-room drapes.
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These included a 1.04 m wide door, which seems to confirm that one is dealing here with a series of rooms along the same line as that of the original portico's steps.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Antoninus Pius Report 3 2003
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These structures, however, also extend beyond the line of the portico's original back wall.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Antoninus Pius Report 3 2003
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A street covered with pavement slabs separated the baths 'west façade from the back wall of the eastern portico's shops.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Conclusions: Urban Development 2003
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We found material of the same date inside the portico, where two walls of a possible cellar below the north portico were located some two meters below the level of the portico's steps.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Antoninus Pius Report 3 2003
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The 2006 campaign had exposed about two thirds of portico's total length, the shops located behind it and about a fourth of the total surface area of the central courtyard.
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Inside the portico we found a late Roman floor level (late-fifth to early-sixth century) well below the level of the portico's lowest step.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Antoninus Pius Report 3 2003
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Immediately beside the late water channel, we found some remains of the portico's back wall, although they are in a much worse condition than the northern section of the wall, which contained blocked door and window openings framed by carefully re-carved door jambs (made out of columns) and vertical quadrangular piers.
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It belonged to a room between the steps and the portico's back.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Antoninus Pius Report 3 2003
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