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When moved from the Lighthouse into the bay, do-peripteral order. To the west of this tomb, a stadion
there is a storage building of 75x24 m arranged in eight was discovered in 2010, it extends for 240 m to the
juxtaposed rooms (Fig. 4). The Latin inscription on north along the shore, with its sphendone in the south.
the façade facing the harbor indicates that it was built Based on initial evalautions, the tiers on the harbor side
by Emperor Hadrian. Most probably it played a major consisted of only a few stairs while the ones in the west
role in transportation of grains from Egypt to Rome. are quite high. It means that the spectators sitting on
To the immediate north of the storage building lies one the western side had a view of a dynamic harbor filled
of the largest temple tombs in Anatolia of the Roman with anchored or moving ships, and behind it, a city
Period (Fig. 5) . Measuring 19x14 m in size, with an landscape rising from shore to the hills. After the stadi-
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inspiration from the Roman temple typology, the tomb on, the dynamic western coast of the bay harbor to the
is seated on a high podium with a monumental stair north houses dozens of monumental tombs and podium
on the façade overlooking the harbor. It has a pseu- sarcophagi facing the harbor .
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7 IŞIK 1995.
8 KOÇAK 2016b.

Fig. 5: Pseudo-Peripteros anıt mezarı, güneyden görünüş (Patara Kazı Arşivi).
Fig. 5: The monumental tomb in pseudo-peripteral order, a view from South (Patara Excavations Archive).

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