Library at Ephesus - Ephesus, Turkey - Great Buildings Online

Architect

unknown

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Location

Ephesus, Turkey map

Date

117 to 120 timeline

Building Type

library

Construction System

bearing masonry, stone

Climate

temperate

Context

urban

Style

Ancient Roman, Classical, Ionic base, Corinthian above

Notes

"Library of Celsus". Roman colonial library, classical original.

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Library at Ephesus Commentary

"It is a rectangular building, wider than deep and measuring approximately 17 m x 11 m (55 ft x 36 ft). Internally, there were shallow square-backed recesses for the books or scrolls at three levels and narrow galleries carried on closely spaced columns for access to them. A further feature was that the walls containing these recesses were not the outer walls. There were other walls separated by a narrow ambulatory to accommodate the stairs to the galleries and to give added protection—almost an early example of cavity construction. The façade was embellished with two storeys of columned aedicules, pairs of columns carrying alternately curved and triangular pediments in the top storey."

—Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. p239.

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Michael Brawne. Libraries: Architecture and Equipment. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970. LC 73-089609. Z679.B83. plan drawing and discussion, p10.

Trent C. Butler, ed. Holman Bible Dictionary. Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 1991. exterior perspective of main facade, p428.

Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. Boston: Butterworths, 1987. ISBN 0-408-01587-X. NA200.F63 1987. discussion, p239. — The classic text of architectural history. Expanded 1996 edition available at Amazon.com

D. S. Robertson. Greek and Roman Architecture. New York: Sydics of the Cambridge University Press, 1969. ISBN 521-06104-0. NA260.R6 1969. perspective drawing of restored facade, f120, p290. W. Wilberg, Jahreshefte d. Osterr. arch. Inst. XI, 1908, p123, f25. restored plan drawing, f119, p288. W. Wilberg, Jahreshefte d. Osterr. arch. Inst. XI, 1908, p120, f22.

Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com

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