ENTRY TYPE
Buildings |
SUMMARY
A group of architectural reliefs of the third quarter of the 2nd century AD, which come from various areas of Ephesus, but mainly from the area of the library and the harbour baths, were connected by the scholars to a building of the monumental altar type, which had been erected by the town of Ephesus in honour of Caesar Lucius Verus. This monument was named “Parthian monument from the representation of the Parthian war on one of its friezes. Apart from this frieze the monument also shows the adoption of L. Verus, his “apotheosis” personifications of towns of the Roman Empire and the meeting of the gods. The building seems to have been destroyed systematically during the Early Christian period and the relief slabs of the friezes were reused for various purposes. Today most of the reliefs are exhibited in the Ephesosmuseum in Vienna. |
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