Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Wien, Band 82/2013, pp. 259-278, 2024/10/15
More than 700 amber objects have been found in the sanctuary of Artemis at Ephesos, distributed all around the temple area. Two large assemblages have been discovered deposited in the rectangular foundations built of green schist slabs (called the ›earlier basis‹ by the excavator D.G. Hogarth) in the interior of the second temple of Artemis (Naos 2, Hogarth’s ›temple B‹), built in the second half of the 7th century B.C. and both have been interpreted as foundation deposits. Originally, the amber artefacts were either individual items or parts of other objects such as belts, textiles and fabrics. The systematic study of the amber objects was begun in 2010 as a collaboration between the Austrian Archaeological Institute and the Institute of Archaeologies of the University of Innsbruck. Here, a preliminary overview of the results is presented.
