This volume and its preceding volume VIII/3, having to do with the building`s construction, complete the
documentation and interpretation of Hanghaus 1. The investigations of the finds took place within the context of
the building`s history. Thus we obtained important results for Ephesian research, confirming that the earliest
housing construction in this area of the city took place about 200BC.
All categories of finds were taken into consideration according to the room in which they were discovered and
catalogued. This gives us indications about the destruction of the house as well as how it was furnished.
Comparison of the building plan, the floors and walls of each room, and the items found within it yields a clear
picture. We can differentiate well between living space and storage rooms, yet are unable to interpret them more
closely. In areas where little of the building is extant, there were also relatively few artefacts to be found, and
interpretation is not possible. There is no proof of commercial use of this building in the centre of the city before
the late antiquity.