A carved relief block lying among the ruins of Ephesus. Decorated blocks from collapsed buildings are found throughout the site, and archaeologists use their style and dimensions to reassign them to the monuments they came from.
Ephesus, on the Aegean coast of Anatolia, was one of the great cities of the Greek and Roman world. Under Rome it was the capital of the province of Asia, with a population estimated at well over 100,000, and it was famous for the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders.
