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Monday, July 3, 2017

Figure 23

The library of Celsus and Gate of Macaeus and Mithridates in Ephesus (modern Selcuk, Turkey). The library was built in honour of Roman Senator Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus and completed by his son in 135 AD. The library held 12,000 scrolls, but was destroyed by an earthquake with all of its contents in 262 AD. Note the aediculae (shrine niche) in the front of the building.

Figure 22

The theater in Ephesus with the colonnaded street, The Arcadian Way, leading down to the now silted harbour.

Figure 21

Ephesian Boulētarion/Odeon (concert hall), not to be confused with the larger theater/stadium.

Figure 20

Market Square of the commercial agora, Ephesus.

Figure 19

Main road (Lat. Viae), called the Sacred Way, leading from Ephesus to Magnesia.

Figure 18

2021 (C) David E. Graves

Urban plan of the city of Ephesus.

Legend

1). Harbour Gate
2). Warehouses
3). Streetof Arcadius
4). Harbour Baths
5). Harbour Gym
6). Xystol of the Harbour Gym
7). Church of Mary
8). Stoa of the Olympieion
9). Temple of Hadrian Olympios
10). Macellum
11). Vedius Gym
12). North Gate
13). Stadium
14). Fountain
15). Theater Gym
16). Theater
17). Hall of Nero
18). Commercial agora
19). Sarapeion
20). Library of Celsus
21). Altar of Artemis
22). Hadrian’s Gate
23). Latrine
24). Scholastikia Baths
25). Temple of Hadrian
26). Heroon of Androklos and Arsinoe IV
27). Slope Houses
28). Fountain of Trajan
29). Temple of Domitian [Flavian Sebastoi]
30). State agora
31). Temple of Divius Julius and Deo Roma [Temple of Isis?]
32). Prytaneion
33). Peristyle
34). Odeon orBouleuterion
35). Baslike Stao
36). Upper Gym
37). East Gym
38). Seven Sleepers
39). Kybele Sanctuary
40). Road to Artemision and Church of St. John

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Figure 17

Fresco from Pompeii, ca. 55–79 AD. (inv. no. 9084).

Woman holding wax tablets in the form of the codex (book) and stylus (so-called Sappho). Letters were first written on wax tablets for easy correction before being copied to scrolls.

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