Kuretenstrasse

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Kuretenstrasse to the west

The Curetes Street was one of the main streets of the ancient city of Ephesus in what is now Turkey .

The ancient name of the street is likely to have been Embolos ( Greek  ἔμβολος "wedge") or Plateia ( πλατεῖα "broad street"). It got its modern name from inscriptions found there by the Ephesian Curetes , which originally came from the Prytaneion . The street is paved with limestone and marble slabs and leads in the valley between the two city mountains of Ephesus, Bülbüldağ and Panayirdağ, from the Herakles Gate to the Celsus Library . Unlike the other streets of the city, the Kuretenstrasse does not follow the right-angled Hellenistic-Roman road system, which is probably due to its great age and, associated with it, its importance for cult processions.

While the eastern section of the street is lined with columned halls with shops and hillside houses behind, public buildings as well as grave and honorary monuments are located in the western section, including the Nymphaeum Traiani , the Heroon of the city founder Androklos , the Octagon, the Temple of Hadrian , the Scholastikia Baths and that Hadrian's Gate.

The road was badly damaged by an earthquake in the 4th century AD.

gallery

  • Mosaic floor in front of the shops

  • Kuretenstrasse in an easterly direction

  • Kuretenstrasse and hillside houses from Panayirdağ

literature

  • Hilke Thür : Hadrian's Gate in Ephesus . Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-7001-1582-2 (Research in Ephesos XI 1).
  • Hilke Thür: Arsinoe IV., A sister of Cleopatra VII., Tomb mistress of the octagon in Ephesus? A suggestion . In: Annual Issues of the Austrian Archaeological Institute 60, 1990, pp. 43–56.
  • Peter Scherrer (Ed.): Ephesos. The new leader . Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-900305-19-6 , p. 116
  • Hilke Thür: The Ephesian city founder Androklos and (s) a Heroon in Ephesus . In: Annual Issues of the Austrian Archaeological Institute 64, 1995, pp. 63–103.
  • Hilke Thür: The Embolos. Innovation and tradition based on its appearance . In: Herwig Friesinger, Friedrich Krinzinger (Hrsg.): 100 years of Austrian research in Ephesus. Files from the Vienna Symposium 1995 . Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2732-4 , pp. 421-428.
  • Hilke Thür: The late antique construction phase of the Kuretenstrasse . In: Renate Pillinger , Otto Kresten, Friedrich Krinzinger, Eugenio Russo (eds.): Efeso paleocristiana e bizantina - Early Christian and Byzantine Ephesus . Rome 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2862-2 , pp. 104-120.

Coordinates: 37 ° 56 ′ 17.9 ″  N , 27 ° 20 ′ 30.5 ″  E