Dienstag, 6. Januar 2009

Turkey (24)

We also visited the (roofed) site of the Hang Houses or Terrassed Houses, which were the homes of the wealthier people of Ancient Ephesus, and their floor mosaics and wall frescos were quite impressive!

In one of the rooms, we saw this "professional jigsaw puzzler", who puzzled together all the broken mosaic parts that once were a kind of ancient "wainscoting" in the homes of those people.

They sure liked their walls to have nice ornaments.
And the same applied to their floors. Boy, what mosaics they had!

The view from the top downhill towards the bottom across all three residential homes that are to be visited also shows the transparent roof that has been erected all over the site.

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