In excavations south of the theater, between it and the hippodrome that was erected outside the civic center of the city, F. Vito found the remains of another gate that apparently was the southwestern gate of the city, at the crossroad that led to Jericho and Jerusalem. In the absence of a city wall, the city’s gates that stood as magnificent monuments at the ends of their roads marked the administrative and legal boundaries of the city and the entrance to the neighboring regional road system.