Where Ephesus was
Ephesus/Arsinoe(ia) was the most important ancient metropolis of Ionian Asia Minor. Athenaeum places it in the Anatolia region. The source gives an approximate location.
Periods the source attests
These are the historical periods in which the source records the place. A gap is not evidence that it was empty.
- Bronze Age
- Early Iron Age
- Archaic Greece
- Classical Greece
- Hellenistic world
- Roman world
- Late antiquity
Its names
The source lists these other names and spellings for Ephesus.
- Ephesus/Arsinoe(ia)
- Arsinoeia
- Arsinoe
- Aya Soluḳ, Aya Soluq
- Aya S̱oluḳ
- Aya Soluq
About the illustration
Generated historical interpretation. Not an archaeological reconstruction.
Questions about ancient Ephesus
Where does the information about Ephesus come from?
From the place's record in the Pleiades gazetteer, with its references, names and periods kept as the source gives them.
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