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Parthian Monument
The Parthian Monument was a 2nd-century Roman monument in Ephesus, of which only remnants survive, now housed in the Ephesos Museum, part of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It is named after reliefs discovered in 1903 in front of the Library of Celsus; these reliefs had later been reused as part of a fountain, with the Library's facade used to support the fountain. The monument is usually thought to be a monument to a campaign against Parthia Parthia ( peo, šŽ±šŽ¼šŽ°šŽŗ ''ParĪøava''; xpr, š­š­“š­•š­… ''ParĪøaw''; pal, š­Æš­«š­®š­„š­”š­„ ''Pahlaw'') is a historical region located in northeastern Greater Iran. It was conquered and subjugated by the empire of the Med ... on the basis of the reliefs' dating, perhaps that of Lucius Verus in 161ā€“166, which would date the monument to after 169. However, some scholars do not believe their subjects can be securely identified as Parthians. Alicia Landskron, zusammenfassend: Ethnikon auf dem Schlachtfries de ...
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Ephesus
Ephesus (; grc-gre, į¼œĻ†ĪµĻƒĪæĻ‚, Ɖphesos; tr, Efes; may ultimately derive from hit, š’€€š’‰ŗš’Š­, ApaÅ”a) was a city in ancient Greece on the coast of Ionia, southwest of present-day SelƧuk in Ä°zmir Province, Turkey. It was built in the 10th century BC on the site of Apasa, the former Arzawan capital, by Attica, Attic and Ionians, Ionian Greek colonists. During the Classical Greece, Classical Greek era, it was one of twelve cities that were members of the Ionian League. The city came under the control of the Roman Republic in 129 BC. The city was famous in its day for the nearby Temple of Artemis (completed around 550 BC), which has been designated one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Its many monumental buildings included the Library of Celsus and a theatre capable of holding 24,000 spectators. Ephesus was recipient city of one of the Pauline epistles; one of the seven churches of Asia addressed in the Book of Revelation; the Gospel of John may have b ...
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Ephesos Museum
The Ephesos Museum in Vienna displays antiquities from the city of Ephesus ( gr, ĪˆĻ†ĪµĻƒĪæĻ‚, german: Ephesos), in modern-day Turkey. Begun in the late 19th century, the collection includes original works of sculpture and architecture, and belongs to the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Since 1978 the Ephesos Museum has had its own rooms in the Neue Burg. Before the museum was established, the present exhibits were provisionally displayed in various locations, including on occasion the Theseus Temple in the Volksgarten.History
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Lying on the Turkish Aegean coast, Ephesus was one of the largest cities of th ...
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Kunsthistorisches Museum
The Kunsthistorisches Museum ( "Museum of Art History", often referred to as the "Museum of Fine Arts") is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on the Vienna Ring Road, it is crowned with an octagonal dome. The term ''Kunsthistorisches Museum'' applies to both the institution and the main building. It is the largest art museum in the country and one of the most important museums worldwide. Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary opened the facility around 1891 at the same time as the Natural History Museum, Vienna which has a similar design and is directly across Maria-Theresien-Platz. The two buildings were constructed between 1871 and 1891 according to plans by Gottfried Semper and Baron Karl von Hasenauer. The emperor commissioned the two RingstraƟe museums to create a suitable home for the Habsburgs' formidable art collection and to make it accessible to the general public. The buildings are rectangular in shape, with symmetrical ...
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Vienna
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Library Of Celsus
The Library of Celsus ( el, Ī’Ī¹Ī²Ī»Ī¹ĪæĪøĪ®ĪŗĪ· Ļ„ĪæĻ… ĪšĪ­Ī»ĻƒĪæĻ…) is an ancient Roman building in Ephesus, Anatolia, now part of SelƧuk, Turkey. The building was commissioned in the 110s A.D. by a consul, Gaius Julius Aquila, as a funerary monument for his father, former proconsul of Asia Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, and completed during the reign of Hadrian, sometime after Aquila's death. The library is considered an architectural marvel, and is one of the only remaining examples of a library from the Roman Empire. The Library of Celsus was the third-largest library in the Roman world behind only Alexandria and Pergamum, believed to have held around twelve thousand scrolls. Celsus is buried in a crypt beneath the library in a decorated marble sarcophagus. The interior measured roughly 180 square metres (2,000 square feet). The interior of the library and its contents were destroyed in a fire that resulted either from an earthquake or a Gothic invasion in 262 A.D.,C ...
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Parthia
Parthia ( peo, šŽ±šŽ¼šŽ°šŽŗ ''ParĪøava''; xpr, š­š­“š­•š­… ''ParĪøaw''; pal, š­Æš­«š­®š­„š­”š­„ ''Pahlaw'') is a historical region located in northeastern Greater Iran. It was conquered and subjugated by the empire of the Medes during the 7th century BC, was incorporated into the subsequent Achaemenid Empire under Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC, and formed part of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire following the 4th-century-BC conquests of Alexander the Great. The region later served as the political and cultural base of the Eastern Iranian Parni people and Arsacid dynasty, rulers of the Parthian Empire (247 BC ā€“ 224 AD). The Sasanian Empire, the last state of pre-Islamic Iran, also held the region and maintained the seven Parthian clans as part of their feudal aristocracy. Name The name "Parthia" is a continuation from Latin ', from Old Persian ', which was the Parthian language self-designator signifying "of the Parthians" who were an Iranian ...
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Romanā€“Parthian War Of 161ā€“166
The Roman–Parthian War of 161–166 (also called the Parthian War of Lucius Verus) was fought between the Roman and Parthian Empires over Armenia and Upper Mesopotamia. It concluded in 166 after the Romans made successful campaigns into Lower Mesopotamia and Media and sacked Ctesiphon, the Parthian capital. Origins to Lucius' dispatch, 161–162 On his deathbed in the spring of 161, Emperor Antoninus Pius had spoken of nothing but the state and the foreign kings who had wronged him. One of those kings, Vologases IV of Parthia, made his move in late summer or early autumn 161. Vologases entered the Kingdom of Armenia (then a Roman client state), expelled its king and installed his ownā€” Pacorus, an Arsacid like himself. At the time of the invasion, the governor of Syria was Lucius Attidius Cornelianus. Attidius had been retained as governor even though his term had ended in 161, presumably to avoid giving the Parthians the chance to wrong-foot his replacement. T ...
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Sculptures In The Kunsthistorisches Museum
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or moulded or cast. Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often represents the majority of the surviving works (other than pottery) from ancient cultures, though conversely traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost entirely. However, most ancient sculpture was brightly painted, and this has been lost.
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