In 1863, the English architect John Turtle Wood (1821–90) resigned from a railway development project in western Turkey to begin his search at Ephesus for the Temple of Artemis, lost from view since the middle ages. In the first part of this well-illustrated 1877 publication, Wood describes the city...

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Main Author:	Wood, John Turtle 1821-1890 (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2015
Series:	Cambridge library collection
Subjects:	Temple of Artemis (Ephesus) Inscriptions, Greek Ausgrabung Ephesus (Extinct city) Ephesus
Online Access:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Summary:	In 1863, the English architect John Turtle Wood (1821–90) resigned from a railway development project in western Turkey to begin his search at Ephesus for the Temple of Artemis, lost from view since the middle ages. In the first part of this well-illustrated 1877 publication, Wood describes the city and the initial excavations carried out with support from the British Museum. This survey of various structures concludes with Wood's work at the great theatre, where he found the Greek inscription that helped direct him to the correct location of the temple in 1869. Part II focuses on the exhausting four years that Wood spent excavating the temple, which was buried under many layers of sand. The appendix presents Greek and Latin inscriptions, with facing-page translations, from various Ephesian sites. Also reissued in this series, Edward Falkener's Ephesus (1862) includes a review of references to the temple in ancient writings
Item Description:	Originally published: London : Longmans, Green, 1877. - Appendix: Greek and Latin inscriptions from Ephesus found in the excavations (8 parts, each paged separately)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 285 pages)
ISBN:	9781316136621
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9781316136621