Terrace House 1. 에베소(Ephesus)

Terrace House 1. 에베소(Ephesus). 터키(Turkey)

 

 

 

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Terrace House 1 is a housing block which, since its foundation period in the 1st century B.C., was divided into six parcels, each representing a residential unit. The rooms of each individual residential unit are grouped around a central colonnaded courtyard.

Residential Unit 6, measuring 1,400 m2, is noteworthy: beneath its colonnaded courtyard part of a house from the foundation period was discovered. After the completion of archaeological investigations this area was refilled. This residential unit does not follow the orthogonal grid plan of the city, but is oriented toward the Embolos (Curetes Street), whereby the master builder must have taken the risk of complications arising during construction in ca. A.D. 100. The rooms reached a height of up to 11 m - their impressive furnishings indicate that the owner must have been one of the city elites. Due to its utilization well into the late antique period, the decoration of Terrace House 1 is far less well preserved than that of Terrace House 2, which was already buried in the 3rd century A.D.

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 <Terrace House 1>

<Room B : North wall>

 

<Entrance Room 1 : Late Hellenistic construction>

 

<SR 1 : Floor slab (opus-sectile technique)>

 

<SR 1 : South wall>

 

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