Katrapetch Phryne Market

The Katrapetch Phryne Market is a famous landmark and lively centre for trade and commerce in the ancient city of Katrapetch.
There has been trading in phryne on this site since the foundation of the city, but the modern Market was rebuilt and considerably extended between 4285 BPC and 4277 BPC a couple of centuries after the Old Pale Empire had conquered the city in the Northern Punjuki Campaign and considerably increased phryne production on the continent.
The "modern" Market, which dates from this still ancient time, consists of a number of arcades and squares, set out over a large area bordered on the north by the grounds of the Royal Palace and on the south by the downstream quaysides of the Jold River. The Petch garden suburb which lies to the east, provides some of the locally produced food which is sold at the Market, whilst to the immediate west are the districts of Naruth, Elvagryl and Elvagryl Park.

Purpose / Function

Although the market's primary function is to act as a meeting place for the wholesale buyers and sellers of the phryne which is grown on the hills to the east of the city, other goods and services have been naturally drawn to the location and it also has stalls which sell food, drink, clothes, haberdashery, pottery and cutlery in retail and in wholesale volumes.

Katrapetch Phryne Market - Western Hall by DMFW with Leonardo AI

Katrapetch Phryne Market - Eastern Hall by DMFW with Leonardo AI

Alterations

The fruit market was a significant extension to the complex, added in 3936 BPC.

Katrapetch Phryne Market - Fruit Stalls by DMFW with Leonardo AI

The grand arcade provides an airy and spaceous passage for the stalls that sell retail and wholesale volumes of many different fruits and vegetables. It replaced a lively but chaotic huddle of different independent shops that the Raja had thought were an eyesore, detracting from the splendour of the central zone of the main market halls.

Founding Date

4285 BPC

Type

Great hall

Parent Location

Katrapetch