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The most important commercial center of the western Anatolia in the 1st century BC. and one of the highlights of Turkey. Ephesus was an ancient Greek city, and later a major Roman city. Ephesus was biblically very important.
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In ancient times it was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but today the Temple of Artemis is represented by a single column standing in a swamp.
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House of Mary discovered in a vision by a bedridden German nun in 1812, this stone building is believed by many Catholics and Muslims to be where the Virgin Mary lived her last years. There is also a healing fountain.
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In ancient times it was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but today the Temple of Artemis is represented by a single column standing in a swamp.
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The Basilica of St. John was built by Emperor Justinian in the 6th century over the traditional tomb of John the Evangelist. The site became a major pilgrimage destination in the Early Middle Ages.
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According to legend, seven Christian boys were locked in this cave by the Romans in c.250 AD, fell asleep, and woke up in the 5th century. It became a place of burial and pilgrimage.
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The Isabey Mosque was built in 1375 at the direction of the Emir of Aydin. It incorporates columns and stones recycled from the ruins of Ephesus and the Temple of Artemis.
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The facade of the Library of Celsus is one of the most spectacular sights in Ephesus. Built by a Roman in memory of his father, it faces east so the reading rooms receive the morning light.
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This magnificent classical theater is considered an important biblical site: the probable place where Paul preached to the pagans in Acts. It is still in use and can seat thousands.
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A very important civic building where the sacred fire of Hestia was tended, official visitors were received by civic and religious dignitaries, and where two statues of the Ephesian Artemis were found.
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This attractive Roman imperial temple was constructed in 118 AD and reconstructed in the fifth century. Its tympanum bears an interesting frieze that may depict Medusa.
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Foundations of a basilica-like building that may have been one of several synagogues known to exist in ancient Ephesus. A Jewish lamp was found on the site.
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The brothel and public latrine of ancient Ephesus are located directly across Marble Street from the Library of Celsus. Both date from the 1st century AD.
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Once lined with shops and inns, Curetes Street was a main city street and an important processional route in the cult of Artemis.
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Ephesus terrace houses are located on the hill, opposite the Hadrian Temple, also known as the houses of the rich.
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This was the building located at the beginning of the Harbour Street near the Theatre. The excavation is not completed. Gymnasium had a great number of rooms which were used as classrooms, dormitories and libraries.
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According to an inscription discovered in excavations this gymnasium was built by P. Vedius Antonius from the Vedius who were a well known family of Ephesus and his wife Flavia Papiana.
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The gate faced the Marble Street more than the Curetes Street and provided a passage, besides the Ortygia road, also to another road climbing up towards the Terrace Houses. It had three gateways and three storeys.
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Domitian Square was an important commercial centre. The existence in Ephesus ruins of shops of a density which would not be seen in other old cities is related to the overseas trade of Ephesus
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The gate was named after two reliefs on these lintels which showed Hercules draped in a lion skin. The gate was constructed with two tiers of columns.
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The part of the Sacred road running between the Library of Celsus and the Grand Theatre is called the Marble Street. The street was paved with large blocks of marble and had herring bone slopes.
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The partially repaired fountain on the right side of the Curetes Street was dedicated to the Emperor Trajan at the beginning of the 2nd century AD. The dedicatory inscription is today on the cornice near the structure.
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Basilica of Ephesus is located between the Odeum and the State Agora. It had three naves and a two ridged gable roof. The roof was made of wood and no trace of it has been found.
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The most important places of defense in a city are certainly its walls and gates. Until the period which we call the Roman Peace (Pax Romana) (the 2nd-3rd centuries AD)
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The last monumental tombs found in the district of Ephesus, it belongs to the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th centuries, hence to the period of the Principality of Aydınoğulları. It is not known to whom it belonged.
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In the 6th century a church was built at the corner of the building near the Magnesia Gate so, that corner was already destroyed by then.
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The building following this is a Byzantine fountain conctructed on top of a monumental tomb which lay in the same place. The outer side of the walls of the fountain’s pool have lozenge shaped decorations with crosses in the middle, a most significant element of the Byzantine period.
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On the fragment of the architrave lying today near the building is written “Caius Memmius, the Saviour, son of Caicus, grandson of Cornelius Sulla”. The monument was built in the 1st century AD.
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It is famous for being the first temple built for an emperor in Ephesus. In the Roman period the building of temples for emperors was made a matter of honour among similar cities.
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The Temple of serapis consisting of a naos and a pronaos was in the form of a typical prostyle. It was built of large blocks of marble of which the weight would be 40-50 tons at first sight. This is a most significant particularity of Egyptian religious buildings.
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Harbour of Ephesus which has today turned into a very small lake. In the Hellenistic period and at the beginning of the Roman period the harbour was the best protected mercantile port of the Mediterranean.
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The street constructed in the 1st century BC was repaired and widened by the Eastern Roman Emperor Arcadius (395-408) and made into a true ceremonial street.
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It was constructed together with the buildings around it during the reconstruction of that part of the city under the reign of the Emperor Hadrian (117-138). Next to the Verulanus sports ground was the Harbour Gymnasium.
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The building following the Temple of Hadrian is a house with a peristyle known as the House of Love. The statue of Priapus, called the god Bes, on display in the Museum of Ephesus was found in this house.
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There are two agoras in Ephesus, the State Agora and the Trade Agora. The Trade Agora lies to the west of the city near the Celsus Library.
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This structure lies at the entrance of the city in the Kusadası direction. A good example of the stadiums of the period, it is 230 metres long and 30 metres wide. Its entrance is on the west.
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Standing near the library provided entrance to the Mercantile Agora of Ephesus and was known by the name of Mazeus Mithradates and Mithradates who were slaves under the Emperor Augustus were given their liberty
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The Odeum had the aspect of a small theatre. Its difference from a theatre was that it was once covered. The seating section of the building of which restoration is at present going on, was reached by stepped side streets covered by vaults on two sides
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Scholastikia Baths are one of the important buildings of the Curetes Street, located in the city centre, it must have been a bath where the distinguished famillies of the city, rather than ordinary people, washed and cleaned themselves and then talked about daily matters.
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The vestiges to the east of the Odeum belong to the building called the Varius Baths. The excavation of all the parts of the baths except the cold room has been done, however no restoration has yet been undertaken.
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Izmir is a large metropolis in the western extremity of Anatolia. The metropolitan area in the entire Izmir Province had a population of 3.95 million as of 2010,making the city third most populous in Turkey.
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Sirince was settled when Ephesus was abandoned in the 15th century but most of what one sees today dates from the 19th century.
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Selcuk is one of the most visited touristic destinations within Turkey, known for its closeness to the ancient city of Ephesus, House of the Virgin Mary and Seljuk works of art.
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Kusadası is a resort town on Turkey’s Aegean coast, Kuşadası caters to tourists, arriving by land, and as the port for cruise ship passengers heading to Ephesus.
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Temple of Hadrian, Ephesus
Structural Research
The building which is generally referred to as the Temple of Hadrian on the Curetes Street is – not only due to the fact that it was reconstructed in 1957/1958 – one of the most well-known monuments of Ephesos. Since its discovery more than 50 years have passed, although a systematic investigation, and publication of the architectural findings have not yet occurred. Questions of chronology, function and details of reconstruction have for this reason been frequently and controversially discussed in the scholarship, but not ultimately resolved.
It is therefore the goal of the project carried out by the OeAI (FWF-Project no. P-20947-G02) to present a comprehensive investigation of the building in the form of a monograph. In addition to the presentation of the architectural findings and questions relating to the building, for example its architectural decoration, issues of function and the history of usage of the Temple of Hadrian will form the focus of the project. Furthermore, the integration of the monument into an overarching context, for example the relationship with other Ephesian cults or its position within the architectural history of Asia Minor, is also of primary significance.
Methods
For the investigation of the architectural history of the Temple of Hadrian, first of all the building itself has to be evaluated as a source of information. For this reason, a detailed structural recording has been carried out for the first time, whereby modern 3-D recording processes have been preferred, for reasons of time and efficiency, in contrast to traditional measurements taken by hand. In summer 2009, the quarrystone wall in the interior of the building, as well as the immediately adjacent structures, were recorded using a phase comparator scanner (Z+F IMAGER 5006i). In addition, all architectural elements of marble were documented by means of a 3-D structured light scanner, work which was carried out in cooperation with Breuckmann GmbH (Meersburg, D). Based on these results, an analysis of the building history and the relationship to the surrounding structures could be made. The facts which resulted from this analysis constitute the foundation for any future statements concerning the function and history of usage of the building.
An evaluation of the building inscription equally enters into the total analysis, as does an investigation of the architectural decoration, here understood not only as the architectural ornament, but also the relief frieze in the pronaos. All of these elements are to be viewed in close connection with the function of the building. Furthermore, for a comprehensive understanding, it is also necessary to place the Temple of Hadrian in its historical context, and for this reason urbanistic aspects, as well as aspects of the history of religion, enter into the investigation.
In addition to an extensive archaeological study of the Temple of Hadrian, a stated goal of the project is also to investigate scientifically the reconstruction of the building. Within the framework of the project, the structural elements of the modern reconstruction will be taken into account by means of a documentation of damage.
Results
The building, which is integrated into the so-called Varius Baths, conforms in its transverse rectangular groundplan to a tetrastyle prostyle building possessing two columns as well as two pilasters in the extension of the antae.
The excavator Franz Miltner initially identified the building – presumably in accordance with the building inscription – as the neocorate temple for Emperor Hadrian mentioned in literary sources. Michael Wörrle contradicted this interpretation, as he was able to date the inscription on prosopographical grounds to the year 117/118 A.D., therefore more than ten years before the construction of the neocorate temple. Similar circumstances apply to the proposal of Ulrike Outschar, who viewed the Temple of Hadrian as a cult building for the deified Antinoos: Antinoos did not die until 130 A.D., therefore years after the construction of the building. The question regarding the interpretation of the monument, furthermore, was obscured by the relief representations, which have frequently been connected to a renovation in the 4th century A.D. based on art historical grounds; it has even been often proposed that the Temple of Hadrian represents a recombination of individual architectural elements which originally came from a variety of different buildings.
The fact that the building preserved its significance up until Late Antiquity is demonstrated by the statue bases of the Tetrarchs Diocletian, Constantius Chlorus and Galerius erected in front of the building. The fourth base was later replaced by Theodosius I with a statue base of his father, in the course of a redevelopment of the Curetes Street.
The current results regarding the building’s history have revealed that the previous statements need to be revised in a number of significant points: the Temple of Hadrian possesses connections to the surrounding bathing complex, the ›Varius Baths‹, and was therefore constructed at the same time as that complex on the site where it is located today. In addition, the eastern section of the pronaos was never subjected to a restoration. Its relief representations are therefore not to be dated to the 4th century A.D., but instead belong to the Hadrianic period; this is a remarkable result not only for the architecture of the Temple of Hadrian but also for research into relief sculpture from Asia Minor in general.
The clarification of these questions concerning the history of the structure therefore not only fulfills a long-term scientific need regarding the monument itself; from these answers, far-reaching ramifications for our understanding of Ephesian urban and cultic history, as well as for the history of art, architecture, and religion throughout Asia Minor are to be expected.
The place where our virgin Mary spent her last days! The small house is set in the most beautiful surroundings. The calm and tranquility is humbling.
We were there some 25 years ago. Terrace houses were not dug up then, it was amazing to see them on our last visit.
It shows how life was,where the toilets are side by side,no privacy in those days,maybe it was a place for men to talk business while doing their business,included in the entrance fee also
Musicians played while the facilities were used. Interesting flushing system and water canal for personal sanitation.
Lasting memory of the walk through Ephesus, you can see it from the start and its the last structure to see before you exit
Ephesus was granted the temple wardenship for the first time by Emperor Domitian (81-96). The temple dedicated to him was built on a terrace measuring 50 by 100 meters on the south side of Domitian Square. Not much is left of the temple. Our information on the structure comes from remains of its foundation. The podium on which the temple was erected measured 24 by 34 meters, and it was a small prostyle ( a temple preceded by a porch with columns) and had eight columns on the short sides and thirteen columns on the long sides. Also, in front of the cella which measured 9 by 17 meters, there were four columns.
There was a row storerooms to the west of the terrace on which the temple was situated and on the side facing the square. There is a parapet consisting of two tiers of columns. There are reliefs on the columns were discovered in another part of the city and brought back to their original location.
The courtyard is pretty, and so are the carpets. The inside is quite plain and not quite what I expected for a Mosque of its age. That being said, it's worth a visit as it is peaceful, and if you've never been to a mosque, it's worth the experience.
The sheer size of the Amphitheater in Ephesus is impressive. You can see if from many other parts of the city. And it is still in good enough shape that there seem to be enough comfortable seats that, if you put together a stage for the performers, there could definitely be concerts given here, which would be awesome to see…
Birdseye insight into everyday life, plasterwork & mosaic floors remarkably intact. Glass walkway enables you to look down on it all.