Publisher's Synopsis
Eleven papers which were presented at an international symposium in 1996, held at the Austrian Cultural Institute in Rome to commemorate the centenary of Austrian excavations in Ephesus. The essays discuss the origins of Christianity in the town, early Christian and Byzantine sculpture, the wall painting in the churches of St Mary and St John, architectural details from other churches in the town, the temple of Augustus, John Theologius, the late antique Kuretes Street, epigraphic monuments and the medieval history of Ephesus. Essays in German and Italian.
