{"id":4668,"date":"2017-02-25T11:34:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T11:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/?p=4668"},"modified":"2017-02-25T11:34:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T11:34:25","slug":"nymphaeum-of-trajan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/cities\/ephesus\/nymphaeum-of-trajan\/","title":{"rendered":"Nymphaeum of Trajan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the northern side of <strong>Curetes Street<\/strong> stands the <strong>Nymphaeum of Trajan<\/strong>. According to the inscription on the frieze and the architrave of the lower level, its construction was funded by the asiarch Ti. <strong>Claudius Aristion<\/strong> between <strong>102 and 114 A.D<\/strong>., and was dedicated by him to the <strong>emperor Trajan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The monumental fountain consisted of a <strong>rectangular basin<\/strong>, surrounded on three sides by a niched fa\u00e7ade on <strong>two levels<\/strong> of different heights, richly decorated with a columned avant-corps.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>central intercolumniation<\/strong> was topped by a <strong>triangular pediment<\/strong>, while the sides were adorned with volutes and the wings with <strong>circular pediments<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/15692654514_0e66801e8d_b.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Photo credits by <a class=\"linkHighlight\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shankaronline\/\" target=\"_new\">shankar s<\/a> under CC-BY-2.0<\/p>\n<p>The entire fa\u00e7ade was enriched by sculptures: <strong>Dionysus<\/strong>, <strong>Aphrodite<\/strong>, a satyr, <strong>statues of the imperial family<\/strong>, etc. The central niche held a colossal marble statue of <strong>the emperor Trajan<\/strong>, of which only the base, with part of the inscription, and a few other fragments remain.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blog-cta\">\n<div class=\"book-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/GUI-EFE-ING-6.png\" alt=\"Ephesus and Pergamon Guidebook\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Do you want to know more about the history of\u00a0<strong>Ephesus and Pergamon?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Check out our <a href=\"\/en\/guidebooks\/ephesus-and-pergamon\/\" target=\"_blank\">guidebook to Ephesus and Pergamon<\/a>, with detailed history and <strong>Past &amp; Present images of their greatest historical and archaeological sites.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"vai-alla-guida\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"\/en\/guidebooks\/ephesus-and-pergamon\/\">Check out our Guide Book to Ephesus and Pergamon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vai-alla-guida\"><\/div>\n<h2>How to get to Nymphaeum of Trajan, Ephesus<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the northern side of Curetes Street stands the Nymphaeum of Trajan. According to the inscription on the frieze and the architrave of the lower level, its construction was funded by the asiarch Ti. Claudius Aristion between 102 and 114 A.D., and was dedicated by him to the emperor Trajan. The monumental fountain consisted of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[183,200],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4671,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions\/4671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}