After closure and after the city had become Christian, the name of Artemis appears to have been erased from inscriptions throughout Ephesus.[31]
Cyril of Alexandria credited Archbishop of Constantinople John Chrysostom with destroying the temple, referring to him as "the destroyer of the demons and overthrower of the temple of Diana". A later Archbishop of Constantinople, Proclus, noted the achievements of John, saying "In Ephesus, he despoiled the art of Midas," but there is little evidence to support this claim.[32]
At least some of the stone from the abandoned temple was used in construction of other buildings.[33] A late medieval legend claims that some of the columns in the Hagia Sophia were taken from the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, but there is no truth to this story.[34][35]
The main primary sources for the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus are Pliny the Elder's Natural History,[36] Pomponius Mela i:17,  and Plutarch's Life of Alexander [37] (referencing the burning of the Artemiseum).

