Ephesus

(ef'e-sus.) [Called Neōkor on, temple-keeper, from its devotion to Diana.] [Anc. Geog.) A celebrated ruined city of Asia Minor, anc. C. of Ionia, and seat of one of KAICAR the 7 Christian churches, the remains of which AN NER E ΝΕΛΚΟΡΟΝ Fig. 307.- COIN OF EPHESUS. (Exhibiting the head of the Emperor Nero, and on the reverse the temple of Diana, with Neōkor on underneath.) are found about 38 m. S.S.E. ofSmyrna. Its great temple, erected in honor of Diana (Fig. 307),was esteemed one of the seven wonders of the world. [s. 334]