The Ephesus Museum

Considering how vast the archaeological site at Ephesus is, it is shocking that there is not a proper sized museum in Kushadasi.  But at least there are some fine things worth seeing in the little museum, which has a lot of busts and gladiator monuments.  There is also a model of the temple of Artemis, and two statues of her. 

Since Artemis was a goddess of fertility those lobes on her breast are probably eggs, though some have thought they were bulls testicles, another symbol of fertility. There is a tiny replica of the temple of Artemis in the museum—

And yes that’s a tiny doll like replica of a statue of Artemis inside the replica temple.  More interesting are the statue of the emperor Domitian,

Or Marcus Aurelius, the Stoic emperor

Or the statue of a priest,

Or a bust of Socrates

Or a  functioning sundial in the courtyard.

And it is here that we have all the paintings of Roman soldiers…