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Curetes Street is one of the three main thoroughfares in ancient Ephesus. If you were to walk south on Marble Street from the Grand Theater, it comes to a bend heading southeasterly. At that point, it becomes Curetes Street.
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Sometimes referred to as the “diagonal street,” Curetes Street ran from the State Agora, past the Slope Houses, to the Library of Celsus. Because it was a main artery in Ephesus, it was lined with houses, shops, and inns, and was an entry point to such important places as, Hadrian’s Temple.
Curetes Street, like Marble and Harbor Streets, was made of marble and had a sewer system beneath it. It was an impressive street and part of the processional route in the cult of Artemis.
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