Turns out the agora had a beautiful colored wall, as we have mentioned before. But it also had a collonaded street with gorgeous marble columns. 
Laodicea was indeed a wealthy city as Revelation 3.14-22 also makes clear, but the city had a serious problem, a water problem, and for a city of about 100,000 or a little less this was indeed a serious issue. The water they had was brackish, not really very potable, with too much calcium carbonate. They’ve even found filters in the pipes going into the more expensive villas here. And this leads us to our next post– the new dig at Laodicea.
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