!!!Ephesos

Ephesus, former metropolis of the Roman province Asia Minor on the 
coast of the Aegean Sea, south of Izmir. Since 1895 the Austrian  
Oesterreichisches Archaeologisches Institut has been carrying out 
excavations and research projects (continuing preliminary work by the 
British between 1863 and 1883 and 1904/1905); funded by the Austrian 
Academy of Sciences and the Austrian Research Fund (1895-1913 under 
the direction of F. A. O.  Benndorf and R. Heberdey, 
1926-1935 J.  Keil, 1954-1958 F.  Miltner, 1960-1968 F. Eichler, 
1969-1986 H.  Vetters, 1986-1992 G. Langmann, since 1993 S. Karwiese). 
The finds mostly date from Roman times and late Antiquity (markets, 
roads, baths, temples, houses, libraries, theatres, stadiums, 
well-houses, grave monuments, cemeteries, churches), in the Artemiseum 
finds dating back to the 9%%sup th/%  century B.C. have been 
excavated.

!Literature
W. Oberleitner and E. Lessing, E., 1978; W. Oberleitner, 
Funde aus Ephesos und Samothrake, 1978; Oesterreichische Akademie der 
Wissenschaften and Oesterreichisches archaeologisches Institut (eds.), 
Die Inschriften von Ephesos, 1979ff.; A. Bammer, Ephesos, Stadt an 
Fluss und Meer, 1988; W. Elliger, Ephesos, 1985; S. Karwiese, Gross 
ist die Artemis der Ephesier, 1995; G. Wiplinger and G. Wlach, E. 100 
Jahre oesterreichische. Forschungen, %%sup 2/%1996.


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