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Temple of Artemis, general view, including altar in front, with acropolis and Tmolos Mountains (looking southeast).©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Temple of Artemis, general view (looking north-northwest, toward the Pactolus valley and the Hermus plain).©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Temple of Artemis, Sardis, east porch survey and triangulation plan 1, drawn 1:100.©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Temple of Artemis, Sardis, east porch survey and triangulation plan 2, drawn 1:100.©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Deep trench (AT 10.3) in the north peristyle of the Temple of Artemis, with architect Brianna Bricker and archaeologist Güzin Eren.©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Excavations in the east porch of the temple of Artemis in 1996, showing head of Commodus in situ in a late Roman pit.©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Lamp from deposit contemporary with the construction of column no. 16, belonging to the Roman phase of the Temple of Artemis (L11.022).©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Northeast anta of the temple of Artemis, after cleaning test of 2013, revealing the original color and veining of the marble.©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Colossal portrait head of the Antonine period found in 1996 in the Temple of Artemis, tentatively identified as Commodus, in situ.
©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Temple of Artemis, Magnesia on the Meander, west facade, computer-aided simulations of light conditions, approximately on a mid-afternoon in late autumn. Top: Light effects on the temple as a pseudodipteros. Center: Light effects on the temple as a dipteros. Bottom: Light effects on the temple as a peripteros.Haselburger and Holman 2015, fig. 10; courtesy of the authors.
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Temple of Artemis, Magnesia on the Meander, west facade, computer-aided simulations of light conditions, approximately on a mid-afternoon in late autumn. Top: Light effects on the temple as a pseudodipteros. Center: Light effects on the temple as a dipteros. Bottom: Light effects on the temple as a peripteros.
Haselburger and Holman 2015, fig. 10; courtesy of the authors.
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Temple of Artemis, Magnesia on the Meander, west facade, computer-aided simulations of light conditions, approximately on a mid-afternoon in late autumn. Top: Light effects on the temple as a pseudodipteros. Center: Light effects on the temple as a dipteros. Bottom: Light effects on the temple as a peripteros.
Haselburger and Holman 2015, fig. 10; courtesy of the authors.
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Temple of Artemis, Magnesia on the Meander, west facade, computer-aided simulations of light conditions, approximately on a mid-afternoon in late autumn. Top: Light effects on the temple as a pseudodipteros. Center: Light effects on the temple as a dipteros. Bottom: Light effects on the temple as a peripteros.
Haselburger and Holman 2015, fig. 10; courtesy of the authors.
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Philip Stinson demonstrating modern iron lewis keys inserted in a Roman lewis hole in crosswall of the Temple of Artemis.©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College
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“Ephesian Ware” stemmed dish fragment from EphesusLATW Cat. 115
Pottery
Ceramic
Last quarter of the 7th c BC, deposited around 610 BC (Lydian)
Slightly curved body fragment of a stemmed dish (Ephesus excavation inventory ART 94 K 142.1). Bichrome decoration precisely painted in dark chocolate brown and reddish brown on a thick, creamy white slip of extraordinary smoothness, reminding one of...
