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Frontinus Street, Hierapolis, Turkey

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Needs a full size peek to do it justice. Thank you for looking. This is one of my favorite shots of Hierapolis as it really captures the overall feel and color of walking through the ruined city itself. This is the view along Frontinus Street in Hierapolis looking towards the Byzantine Gate. This gate was built in middle of the 3rd century C.E. and so is about 300 years younger than the nearby Domitian's Gate. When we so rapidly tear down our cities as we rebuild them I was struck by these two nearby gates being separated in age by some 300 years. You can see that the Byzantine Gate was built as part of a defensive wall, unlike Domitian's gate which was retrofitted with a wall. This street was originally about 15 meters wide when it was first built by the Romans along with the Domitian Gate. The tall columns are the remains of temples, shops and public fountains. You can see why the alternate name for this street was The Monumental Way. The lower inner rows of rocks are not just rubble but rather the remains of a second wave of building, by the Byzantines. These were mostly shops and market stalls. The street then became as narrow as eight meters. Previous Hierapolis
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Comments (27)


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Faemike55

11:33PM | Fri, 13 January 2012

Very cool capture and great bit of history lesson thanks very much, Roxy

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MineFujiko

11:34PM | Fri, 13 January 2012

Beautiful photo and lesson of history! Roxy-sensei Thank you!

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3dpoetry

11:38PM | Fri, 13 January 2012

Excellent Capture

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mgtcs

11:45PM | Fri, 13 January 2012

Fantastic shot Roxy, marvelous and magic place my friend, congratulations!

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barryjeffer

12:24AM | Sat, 14 January 2012

Beautiful... a fantastic shot

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renecyberdoc

12:41AM | Sat, 14 January 2012

and very impressive and smells tons of history.

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vitachick

3:34AM | Sat, 14 January 2012

Amazing that after all these years anything is left standing. Great capture and once again wonderful history lesson..

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tamburro

4:11AM | Sat, 14 January 2012

Great capture Roxy!!! Hugs:)

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nitegrafix

4:11AM | Sat, 14 January 2012

This is an incredible shot! LOVE IT!

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twelvemark21 Online Now!

6:00AM | Sat, 14 January 2012

Wonderfully captured!

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odile

8:22AM | Sat, 14 January 2012

Excellent! Thanks for the tour! This is a great shot. The pavement stones are so impressive.

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wotan

9:01AM | Sat, 14 January 2012

Beautiful shot and place my frienf... I would like to visit it, who knows!

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magnus073

9:18AM | Sat, 14 January 2012

This really is an amazing pic, you captured this place do well Roxie

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eekdog

9:40AM | Sat, 14 January 2012

wonderful shot Roxy.. love the ruins here.

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Dreamdesigner

10:43AM | Sat, 14 January 2012

Magnificent shot Roxy!Really there's an unbelievable and fantastic history at there!Thanks for the historical info and Special thanks to you for sharing these wonders with us:-)))))

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X-PaX

10:49AM | Sat, 14 January 2012

Very nice capture. Well done.

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drifterlee

11:44AM | Sat, 14 January 2012

Fascinating ruins!

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jayfar

1:01PM | Sat, 14 January 2012

Wonderful, I hope they won't pull this down!

West_coaster07

2:57PM | Sat, 14 January 2012

Beautiful capture!!

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vaggabondd

7:40PM | Sat, 14 January 2012

This is a beautiful capture my friend

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adorety

8:15PM | Sat, 14 January 2012

Excellent shot. It does give a great sense of being there from this perspective. It's quite amazing how old sophisticated plumbing goes back. Fountians and baths, and more I imagine. Great shot of a historical timeline.

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SidheRoseGraphics

1:39AM | Sun, 15 January 2012

This is a fabulous shot Roxy. It really does take you there - across space and time. They are evidently in the process of doing research to construct a 3D model of Hierapolis - not sure who exactly, but here is a link for you: http://spiedigitallibrary.org/proceedings/resource/2/psisdg/7110/1/711004_1?isAuthorized=no

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0rest4wicked

10:04AM | Sun, 15 January 2012

A grand view at street level to give it presence! Would love to wonder in such a place!

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RodS

12:58PM | Sun, 15 January 2012

I can only imagine what it must feel like to walk along this street with so much history all around you - it must be almost overwhelming.. Gorgeous photo, Roxy! Thank you for taking us along on your travels!

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ia-du-lin

6:59AM | Mon, 16 January 2012

great scene, wonderful ruins photo

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Blush

7:57PM | Mon, 16 January 2012

Perfection of a capture Love it Hugs Susan~

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nikolais

3:06AM | Sat, 04 February 2012

very lovely capture!


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