ANDRIAKE.
Latitude 29 57 30 Longitude 36 13 28

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Andriake was the port for the city of Myra. It did enjoy separate city status so was not part of Myra. The main grain silos was no doubt constructed on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian, well noted for the large building projects he ordered in the Empire

Plan of Andriake
1. Ancient Harbour 2. North City 3. South City 4. City Wall 5-6. Observation Tower 7. Harbour Street 8. Buildings
9. Placoma Agora 10. Grain Silo 11. Cistern 12. Building with Apse 13. Water Mill 14. Water canal 15-19 Churches 20. Necropolis
21-22. Sarcophagi.

The remains of the buildings reflect the importance that these facilities were to not only Andriaka but Myra.

On the western side of the agora there is a cereal storage area formed by seven chambers. The sides of this storage granary are 65 by 32 meters. All the rooms are interconnected with rooms on their walls. The front façade of the building is built with regular stones.

 

An unusual decoration on one of the stones of the building depicting a relief of Hadrian and his wife Faustina, so giving a date of around 129 AD.

The interior of one of the granary.

To maintain ventilation in the building these slits were every few yards.

In front of the granary there are the remains of houses, the port avenue and ship shelters whose tops are half open. There is a watchtower on the western side of the port. 

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