Hillside house

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The complex of hillside houses on Kuretenstrasse in Ephesus with the roofing of hillside house 2
Wall paintings in the hillside house 2

The so-called hillside houses are two complexes (so-called insulae ) of ancient private houses in Ephesus in today's Turkey .

Both insulae are on the southern slope of Bülbüldağ, the larger of the two city mountains of Ephesus. The better preserved "Hanghaus 2" takes up an area of ​​about 4000 m² and borders on the so-called Kuretenstraße in the north . The Roman residential development in the form visible today began in the Roman Empire; its use in the structure visible today ended with the destruction of the hillside house 2 by an earthquake in the 3rd quarter of the 3rd century AD. The hillside house 2 is mainly through its well-preserved wall paintings are remarkable, most of which are dated to the 3rd century AD. It is the most extensive and best preserved find of wall paintings from the east of the Roman Empire from this period.

The covered complex to the hillside houses can be reached via a separate entrance within Ephesus. An additional entrance fee will be charged.

Pieces of furniture and small finds from the hillside houses as well as some wall paintings are exhibited in the House Finds Hall in the Ephesus Museum in Selçuk .

Web links

Commons : Hanghäuser  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Friedrich Krinzinger (Ed.): The hillside house 2 of Ephesus - studies on building history and chronology . Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002. 259 pp., ISBN 3-7001-3050-3 (Archaeological Research Volume 7 - Memoranda of the Philosophical-Historical Class Volume 302).
  • Peter Scherrer (Ed.): Ephesos. The new leader . ÖAI, Vienna 1995, pp. 102–115, ISBN 3-900305-19-6 .
  • Volker Michael Strocka : The wall painting of the hillside houses in Ephesus . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1977 (Research in Ephesos, 8, 1,).
  • Hilke Thür (ed.): The hillside house 2 in Ephesus. The residential unit 4. Building findings, equipment, finds . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3322-7 (Research in Ephesus, VIII, 6)
  • Hilke Thür, Elisabeth Rathmayr (ed.): Hanghaus 2 in Ephesos. The residential unit 6. Text volume 1 . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2014, ISBN 9783700173557

Coordinates: 37 ° 56 ′ 17 ″  N , 27 ° 20 ′ 29 ″  E