DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.5179#0148
OF THE DIFFERENT BUILDINGS OF THE CITY. 119
The Epliesians removed his body to their own
country, and buried it in the road which led from
the Temple of Diana to the Temple of Jupiter
Olympius and the Magnesian Gate. An armed
man stood on the sepulchre, and it was still perfect
so late as the time of Pausanias,1 (A.D. 174,) and
it must therefore have been of solid construction to
have lasted for a period of eleven hundred years.
Two other monuments are recorded to us, viz.,
the trophy executed by Thrasvllus, (400 B.C.) at
the marsh between Ephesus and Aiaslik, and that
at Coressus on the Port Panormus. There was
also another trophy erected by Lysander; but this,
though in the Ephesian territory, was at some
distance from the city.
It is doubtful whether the hill of Aiaslik was modern
ever occupied prior to the Christian era. Choiseul
Gouffier,3 indeed, under his distorted view of the
whole plain, calls it Mount Pion, but most writers
consider its origin to be of the Byzantine period. Its
vicinity to Ephesus, its commanding situation above
the plain, and its capability of defence, render it
probable that the Epliesians would not leave so
advantageous a spot exposed to the incursions of an
enemy; we may, therefore, concur with Pococke3
in thinking that it formed a suburb of the city. Its
early walls, if ever they existed, have disappeared;
but the construction of-the gateway and lower walls
1 Pans. vii. 2. 2 Voy. Pit. Plan. 3 Descript. p. 47.
AIASLIK.
The Epliesians removed his body to their own
country, and buried it in the road which led from
the Temple of Diana to the Temple of Jupiter
Olympius and the Magnesian Gate. An armed
man stood on the sepulchre, and it was still perfect
so late as the time of Pausanias,1 (A.D. 174,) and
it must therefore have been of solid construction to
have lasted for a period of eleven hundred years.
Two other monuments are recorded to us, viz.,
the trophy executed by Thrasvllus, (400 B.C.) at
the marsh between Ephesus and Aiaslik, and that
at Coressus on the Port Panormus. There was
also another trophy erected by Lysander; but this,
though in the Ephesian territory, was at some
distance from the city.
It is doubtful whether the hill of Aiaslik was modern
ever occupied prior to the Christian era. Choiseul
Gouffier,3 indeed, under his distorted view of the
whole plain, calls it Mount Pion, but most writers
consider its origin to be of the Byzantine period. Its
vicinity to Ephesus, its commanding situation above
the plain, and its capability of defence, render it
probable that the Epliesians would not leave so
advantageous a spot exposed to the incursions of an
enemy; we may, therefore, concur with Pococke3
in thinking that it formed a suburb of the city. Its
early walls, if ever they existed, have disappeared;
but the construction of-the gateway and lower walls
1 Pans. vii. 2. 2 Voy. Pit. Plan. 3 Descript. p. 47.
AIASLIK.