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Cave of the Seven Sleepers (Ephesus)

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified May 27, 2026 01:56 PM — History
A site at Ephesus that is one of several contenders in western Asia for the site of the tradition of the 'seven sleepers', individuals who sought refuge in a cave ca. 250 CE and then emerged from said cave 309 lunar years later, according to the Quran.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/43374419

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catacomb, cemetery, necropolis

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Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Cave of the Seven Sleepers (Ephesus): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/43374419> [accessed: 12 June 2026] 

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