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temple (destroyed)
Close ✕Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (the Artemision)
The great Ionic temple of Artemis near modern Selçuk in western Türkiye, rebuilt several times on the same spot.
37.9, 27.4 · exact · c. 8th century BCE – 401 CE (successive temples on one site)
On the world
- A place in: Wonders of the Ancient and Modern World · 12 places
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Connections
- is contemporary with of Statue of Zeus at Olympia — Both belong to the Greek sanctuary building of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, the Zeus made in the 430s BCE and the Artemision rebuilt after 356 BCE.
- is held in same collection as of Mausoleum at Halicarnassus — Sculpture from both sites was removed to the British Museum in the nineteenth century and is displayed there.
- listed in The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World — Named in Antipater's epigram as the house of Artemis that climbs to the clouds.
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