Booking Room
Ephesus Museum
Fountain Artifacts: In this room are finds from the Pollio, Trajan, and Laecanus fountains at Ephesus. To the immediate left of the door is a bust of Zeus and a statue of Aphrodite. In the center of the room is statue of a "Resting Warrior". To the left is the statue group of "Odysseus-Polyphemos" which decorated the Pollio fountian. The first figure is Dionysius reclining on a tree trunk. The other statues are a reclining satyr, an Aphrodite with oyster shell and Anrocles with dog. On the right of the room is a series of busts. These belonged to the statues at the Laecanus Bassus Fountain.
Recent Findings Room: Some recent finds have been on exhibit here for a year or two. In the display case to the immediate right of the door are Byzantine finds from the Christian era. On the left side of the room are coins and jewelry. Pre-Roman coins from Ephesus have the city symbol, a bee, on one side and the deer of Artemis on the other.
Coins from the Roman period show the emperor, or his lieutenants, or some imperial symbol. On the left wall hang theater masks made of leather or wood and were found at the Grand Theater in Ephesus. Such masks made of stone were used for decoration. On the same wall is a lamp stand from Ephesus. Other important artifacts in the room include a masked Eros, amphoras, figure of Eros, a statue of Aphrodite, and various busts, including one of Menander, the playwright. The only thing that remains permanently in the room is an ivory frieze from the "hillside houses". The frieze shows Trajan fighting eastern barbarians and three sections from his preparation to fight.


