Efes Museum

The museum of items from Efes (Ephesus) is located in modern-day Selcuk, so we decided to visit the museum before seeing the ancient city, which is probably the best-known of Turkey's many classical sites. The museum was just a couple hundred meters from our campsite.

Nice sarcophagus in a garden setting outside the museum

Bust of Marcus Aurelius...



As found in excavations of Efes

"Honey, could you press that little button, and smile?" The

Priapos is one of the museum's most popular artifacts; they

discreetly keep it in a darkened box--it's a family museum--

which is hilarious, since you can buy a replica at any trinket

shoppe from Istanbul to Antioch, Izmir to Nemrut

Dagi

A more artful version, with Virgil's famous

lines

Sundial in the courtyard



Roman glass, which we always find intriguing

"And now for something completely different:

a woman with ..." Efes Museum's most

famous item, the larger-than-life statue of

Artemis

Different version

Entrance to the ruins of the massive Byzantine Basilica of

St. John the Evangelist (he's supposed to be buried

somewhere underneath)

View from the ticket office, the citadel in the background

We decided to take a pass on this one, since a) everything

is restored--restored ruins--everything you see is modern,
b) it's merely Byzantine, c) we're really more into the
Synoptic Gospels, and d) no plenary indulgence was offered