The Prytaneion

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The prytaneion or the office of the civic magistrates and center of the administration of the koinon is located in the agora area. The structure constitutes a mid third century BC construction and is identified with the ruins of a building, with two rooms fronted by a wooden colonnaded portico. The structure may have served as a "Banketthaus" simultaneously as suggested by the channel in the vicinity of the south-eastern room, probably used for washing supplies for the meals. The second period of the building is related with the establishment of the Roman colony. The construction of a stone water tub suggests also a probable changing of the function of the building into a workshop around the first century AD. During the excavation of the monument was brought to light a Latin inscription of the time of August, providing evidence on the statue which was placed by decision of the decuriones and the supervision of the duumviri. Only the name of T. Petronius is preserved while the other is removed from the inscription as damnation memoriae, as a condemnation of memory because of the political exclusion. Another inscription discovered dedicated to Artemis dates back to the second century BC, when the prytanis of the city was a certain Illyrian named Triteutas.

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