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STESKAL Martin
Das Prytaneion in Ephesos

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512 Seiten, 263 Tafeln, 29,7x21 cm, broschiert


Serial:  Forschungen in Ephesos  9/4
ISBN13: 978-3-7001-6842-3

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In the last decade before the year zero a building in the north of the so-called State Agora of Ephesus was erected, that is now known as one of the very few securely identified prytaneia of the ancient world. As the main cultic building of the city the prytaneion functioned as the official office of the highest magistrates within the city, as the site of banquets in honour of worthy citizens and foreigners at the cost of the state, and as the site of the so-called hearth of the state, upon which the eternal flame burned, symbolising the life of the city.

 

Between the years 2007 and 2009 a final thorough scientific study has been carried out that clarified the building history, its structure and function. In this context processes of transformation could be determined that proved a change in function of an Imperial structure of government, cult and representation to a Byzantine area for craftsmen in connection with simple residential structures. This publication tries to explain the eventful history of this complex, that can be traced over the first eight centuries AD.

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