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TEMPLE OF DOMITIAN, EPHESUS | ANCIENT SITES OF EPHESUS
Temple of Domitian |
Temple of Domitian
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The Temple of Domitian
During the imperial period, the firt neokorate came from the emperor Domitian. The Ephesians wished to reciprocate appropriately, and
so erected a 6 to 7 meter statue of him in front of the cella (main room) of the Temple of Domitian. This temple once stood on a terrace south of Domitian Street. It was a prostyle temple with eight columns on the short sides
and thirteen on the long sides. Four additional columns stood in front of the cella. The altar was U-shaped. A flight of stairs led up to it.
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Domitian was a rather unpopular emperor. His own servants finally murdered him. This caused great confusion in Ephesus, since Domitian was, after all, the first Roman emperor to grant them the signal honor of building an imperial
neokorate temple. They owed him a debt of gratitude. Because of his unpopularity, Ephesus stood to lose the right to build such temples. They turned the difficulty to good account by re-dedicating the temple to his father, Vespatian, and honoring
him from that point onward.
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