Tetrapylon Street

Name of structure: Tetrapylon Street
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Country or main area: Turkey
Region within country or main area: Caria
City or area within region: Aphrodisias
Date of structure: Late Antique
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Specific place of mosaic: Probably a large decorated area in the Late Antique hall adjacent to Tetrapylon Street ('Fifth Avenue') 
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Glass wall mosaic fragments found in conjunction with a marble pilaster capital featuring a peasant tending a goat.  They were part of an elaborate frame for the capital.
Date of mosaic: Late Antique
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Silver tessera at site:
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Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)?
Has analysis been done?
Samples taken from where?
Excavation and restoration campaigns:

1961-1990: large-scale excavations directed by Kenan Erim from 1961 to 1990.


1991 - Archaeological research programme sponsored by the Institute of Fine Arts in cooperation with the Faculty of Arts and Science of New York University, jointly directed by Christopher Ratté, Associate Professor of Classics and Fine Arts at New York University and R.R.R. Smith, Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Oxford.
Aphrodisias Field Director: Alexander Sokolicek.
Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Institute of Fine Arts, New York, Aphrodisias Newsletter 2008-2009, p. 2


www.ny u.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/pdfs/publications/Aphrodis ias_Newsletter_2009.pdf
URLs: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/aphrodisias/home.ti.htm
Comments: Research ongoing.
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