The results of the excavation have shown that in the second half of the 6th century CE a process gradually began that was characterized at first by the halt in the city’s development. From that period of time we have no building inscriptions or any other evidence of architectural development that was not connected to ecclesiastical buildings, a process that reached its peak at the end of the 6th century and beginning of the 7th century CE. The public buildings were no longer maintained as they were at first and they were slowly being destroyed; some were abandoned and even dismantled and private construction was now encroaching on the public areas. Meager private buildings were constructed in the stoae of the colonnaded streets and the once magnificent colonnaded streets were neglected, covered over with alluvium and became alleys. All these bear witness to a weakening central government, both in the administration of the city and the province and the administration of the Byzantine Empire. Even though the Persian conquest did not directly affect the city it presumably accelerated processes that were now quite apparent in all areas of the civic center.