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Octagon
Octagon
Tombe de la princesse Arsinoé IV
Section
18
on 31
Ephesus
Outdoor Architecture
approx. between 40 and 20 B.C.
Area related :
Ephesus
Octagon was a vaulted burial chamber placed on a square pedestal with the skeleton of a 20-year old woman in a marble sarcophagus.
Description
According to an interpretation Octagon was a monument to Ptolemy Arsinoe IV who was murdered in Ephesus in 41 BC.
Place(s) related
Heroon
(Ephesus)
