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Harbor or Arcadian Street is another of the main streets in ancient Ephesus. As the name Harbor Street may suggest, it ran west/east from the Harbor Baths to the Great Theater. This is the street a sailor or trader would use when they entered the port at Ephesus.
The street was built in the first century and later restored by Emperor Arcadius [395-408 AD], hence the present-day name, Arcadian Street. It was about a third of a mile long and had shops and galleries on both sides of the street.
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An interesting feature about Harbor Street is that it was a lighted street, with water and sewage channels that ran beneath the flagstones. According to an inscription found during excavations, Harbor Street was illuminated by fifty lamps at night. In the Roman period illuminated cities were quite rare [the only other lighted cities that we know of at that time were Rome and Antioch].
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