The Parthian Monument was a 2nd-century Roman monument in

Ephesus Ephesus (; grc-gre, Ἔφεσος, Éphesos; tr, Efes; may ultimately derive from hit, 𒀀𒉺𒊭, Apaša) was a city in ancient Greece on the coast of Ionia, southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey. It was built in t ...

, of which only remnants survive, now housed in the

Ephesos Museum The Ephesos Museum in Vienna displays antiquities from the city of Ephesus ( gr, Έφεσος, german: Ephesos), in modern-day Turkey. Begun in the late 19th century, the collection includes original works of sculpture and architecture, and bel ...

, part of the

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 do ...

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. It is named after reliefs discovered in 1903 in front of the

Library of Celsus The Library of Celsus ( el, Βιβλιοθήκη του Κέλσου) is an ancient Roman building in Ephesus, Anatolia, now part of Selçuk, Turkey. The building was commissioned in the 110s A.D. by a consul, Gaius Julius Aquila, as a funerary m ...

; 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, 𐎱𐎼𐎰𐎺 ''Parθava''; xpr, 𐭐𐭓𐭕𐭅 ''Parθaw''; pal, 𐭯𐭫𐭮𐭥𐭡𐭥 ''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 161–166, 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 des Partherdenkmals von Ephesos
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Bibliography

* Wolfgang Oberleitner: ''Das Partherdenkmal von Ephesos. Schriften des Kunsthistorischen Museums, 11.'' Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, 2008 * Wolfgang Oberleitner: ''Das Partherdenkmal von Ephesos''. In: Herwig Friesinger u. a. (Hrsg.): ''100 Jahre österreichische Forschungen in Ephesos. Akten des Symposions Wien 1995''. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1999. pp. 619–631. * {{in lang, de W. Seipel (ed.): ''Das Partherdenkmal von Ephesos. Akten des Kolloquiums, Wien, 27. - 28. April 2003. Schriften des Kunsthistorischen Museums 10.'' Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, 2006. 2nd-century Roman sculptures Sculptures in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Ephesus Classical antiquities of the Kunsthistorisches Museum