Description: Reclus09_57 1884 Reclus print PRISON OF SAINT PAUL, EPHESUS, ASIA MINOR, #57 Nice small print titled EPHESE. - PRISON DE SAINT PAUL. Dessin de E. Schiffer, d'après une photographie., from wood engraving with fine detail and clear impression, approx. overall size is 15.5 x 15 cm, approx. image size is 12 x 10 cm. From La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes / The Earth and Its Inhabitants, great work of Elisee Reclus. Ephesus, Greek Ephesos, the most important Greek city in Ionian Asia Minor, the ruins of which lie near the modern village of Selcuk in western Turkey. In Roman times it was situated on the northern slopes of the hills Coressus and Pion and south of the Cayster (Küçükmenderes) River, the silt from which has since formed a fertile plain but has caused the coastline to move ever farther west. The Temple of Artemis, or Diana, to which Ephesus owed much of its fame and which seems to mark the site of the classical Greek city, was probably on the seaboard when it was founded (about 600 BC), one mile east by northeast of Pion (modern Panayir Dag). In Roman times a sea channel was maintained with difficulty to a harbour well west of Pion. By late Byzantine times this channel had become useless, and the coast by the mid-20th century was three miles farther west. Ephesus commanded the west end of one great trade route into Asia, that along the Cayster valley, and had easy access to the other two, along the Hermus (Gediz) and the Maeander (Büyükmenderes) rivers.
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Location: Zagreb
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Size Type/Largest Dimension: Small (Up to 14'')
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Type: Print
Year of Production: 1884
Date of Creation: 1800-1899
Style: Realism
Original/Reproduction: Original Print
Print Type: Engraving
