The volume is about the architecture and archaeology of the Civil Basilica of Aphrodisias, a huge public building built in the late first century AD. The book presents a detailed account of the Basilica's well-preserved remains and over hundred drawings by the author including a reconstruction of the display context for Diocletian’s Edict of Maximum Prices inscribed on the building's North Facade (with Michael Crawford). The Basilica is set in the context of several similar buildings in Asia Minor that together constitute a distinct regional form of the Roman basilica.