Biblioteca de Cels

Infotaula edificiBiblioteca de Cels
Dades
Tipus	Biblioteca, jaciment arqueològic, atracció turística i monument funerari
Part de	Ephesus (en)
Cronologia
– 135 (Gregorià)	construcció
Dedicat a	Tiberi Juli Cels Polemeà
Localització geogràfica
Entitat territorial administrativa	Selçuk (Turquia)
Localització	Efes
	37° 56′ 21″ N, 27° 20′ 27″ E / 37.93914°N,27.34075°E

La Biblioteca de Cels, a Efes, Àsia Menor (Anatòlia, actualment part de Turquia)^[1], va ser construïda en honor de Tiberi Juli Cels Polemeà^[2]^[3] (completada l'any 135^[1]) pel fill de Cels, Cai Juli Aquila (cònsol, any 110). Cels havia estat cònsol l'any 92, governador d'Àsia l'any 115, i un ciutadà romà de la regió popular i adinerat.

La biblioteca va ser construïda per emmagatzemar 12.000 rotllos i per servir com tomba monumental per a Cels. Era poc habitual que algú es fes enterrar en una biblioteca o fins i tot dins dels límits d'una ciutat, la qual cosa és un honor especial per Cels.

↑ ^1,0 ^1,1 Campbell, 2013, p. 15.
↑ Swain, Simon. Dio Chrysostom: Politics, Letters, and Philosophy (en anglès). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, p. 57. ISBN 9780199255214. «...statues (lost except for their bases) were probably of Celsus, consul in A.D. 92, and his son Aquila, consul in A.D. 110. A cuirass statue stood in the central niche of the upper storey. Its identification oscillates between Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, who is buried in a sarcophagus under the library, and Tiberius Julius Aquila Polemaeanus, who completed the building for his father»
↑ Nicols, John. Vespasian and the partes Flavianae (en anglès). Steiner, 1978, p. 109. ISBN 9783515023931. «Nevertheless, in 92 the same office went to a Greek, Ti. Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, who belonged to a family of priests of Rome hailing from Sardis; entering the Senate under Vespasian, he was subsequently to be appointed proconsul of Asia under Trajan, possibly in 105/6. Celsus' son, Aquila, was also to be made suffectus in 110, although he is certainly remembered more as the builder of the famous library his father envisioned for Ephesus»

[FOOTNOTECampbell201315-1] 1,0 ^1,1 Campbell, 2013, p. 15.

[2] Swain, Simon. Dio Chrysostom: Politics, Letters, and Philosophy (en anglès). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, p. 57. ISBN 9780199255214. «...statues (lost except for their bases) were probably of Celsus, consul in A.D. 92, and his son Aquila, consul in A.D. 110. A cuirass statue stood in the central niche of the upper storey. Its identification oscillates between Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, who is buried in a sarcophagus under the library, and Tiberius Julius Aquila Polemaeanus, who completed the building for his father»

[3] Nicols, John. Vespasian and the partes Flavianae (en anglès). Steiner, 1978, p. 109. ISBN 9783515023931. «Nevertheless, in 92 the same office went to a Greek, Ti. Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, who belonged to a family of priests of Rome hailing from Sardis; entering the Senate under Vespasian, he was subsequently to be appointed proconsul of Asia under Trajan, possibly in 105/6. Celsus' son, Aquila, was also to be made suffectus in 110, although he is certainly remembered more as the builder of the famous library his father envisioned for Ephesus»

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