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Basilica. A little north of the
great colonnade are the massive remains of
a palace or large civic building. It faces
the colonnade on the west side of it, and its portico
was connected with the colonnade.

It consists of a main building of simple plan
surrounded with smaller colonnades in the
form of connecting courts.

The main building opened ^ upon ^ the colonnade, to
north and south were square colonnaded courts.
In the rear was an open space bounded
in the west by a massive wall pierced with
large windows. Before this wall, in the east,
ran a fine colonnade. The east wall of the
main building was prolonged on either side and
formed the rear wall of small chambers & shops
opening upon the colonnaded avenue. This wall
at its ends turned to the west to join the rear wall
of the grand court - few traces of it remain. Thus
a large area was enclosed with walls on three sides
of the basilica - The enclosure is of full of broken
columns which must have divided the area into
several rectangular colonnaded courts.