South Stoa II was a commercial Stoa in Ancient Agora.
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Today we mainly see the foundations and the stereobate of the stoa. Both South Stoa II and Middle Stoa formed the southern square of the Agora.
It was a single stoa with 30 Doric columns and probably served the city’s commercial needs. It had a small fountain on the back side, that is, on the south side of the agora. It was linked with the earlier Middle Stoa through a small building. South Stoa II was built over a large part of the older South Stoa I, which had to be demolished. Also, a large part of the rock had to be dug. The water found at a shallow depth forced the builders to design a complex system of drains under the building.
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1936 The first excavation took place.
86 BC Destroyed by Sulla.
Constructed around the middle of the 2nd century BC.
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