ROMAN LIBRARY BUILDINGS
analogy and the statues point to this as being the reading room with storage rooms on both sides. Originally the central space was a fish pond. The later building in the middle with "corridors, apses and niches" has also much the aspect of the library buildings of the later period, so that at all events a plan of this building as a whole gives one a general notion of the two types of library, the series of rooms at the end of a quadrangular portico and the building with apse and statue, interior columns, and wall space for book niches.
Just about the time of the Ulpian library there was founded at Ephesus a memorial library which was unearthed by Austrian excavators in 1904 and has proved uncommonly interesting and instructive. This "Library of Celsus" was a memorial library erected in memory of Titus Julius Celsus Polemaeanus who was consul in 92 and Proconsul of Asia in
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