Road square. The 400 m long Cardo Maximus starts from the Nymphaeum and runs north to south through the city. The road is 30m wide along 135 m and then narrows towards the south. There are colonnades on each side of the road and a 2 m deep, 1 m wide drainage system in the middle. The road lost its function in later periods. Its floor slabs formed a floor for houses and shops, which are made with poor workmanship using collected and simple material. The buildings are made very simple with loam mortar and in the patches with dry wall technique using architectural components from various structures. The road, which is left between the buildings, is no more on the north-south symmetrical axis but on the northeast-southwest direction. The plan of the city also changed in these periods and became more complex. Numerous metals such as iron door components, agricultural tools, scissors, knife etc, terra cotta spindle-whorl and ceramic fragments that were unearthed in the buildings give information on the used materials. Coins from the period of Emperor Johannes (919-976), which were found just above the ground give the exact date of these buildings and document that the set[tlement] continued in Antiocheia in the 10th century AD. Despite the fact that settlemens continued in the city, the unearthed show that the grandeur of the city in the earlier periods no more existed and the people led a very poor life.