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 8 DIANA'S TEMPLE AT EPHESUS. Fig. 4. — Plinth of Column. 2. Pointing out that a circular line on their upper sur- faces would just take one of the sculptured drums with its roll moulding at bottom, he endeavoured to prove that this arrangement, which had been suggested by Fergusson and adopted at the Museum, was the only possible one. " So far as I can see, there is no escape, much as it' may be desired, from bringing the sculp- tured drums directly down on the sculptured pedestals as we have done in the Museum." 3. He maintained that a low square block made up of two stones found beneath one of the ordinary columns was cut so as to show that it "joggled" into other stones, and must have been part of a stylobate, instead of, as Wood had said, a plinth block under the base. "The [circular] base itself " (Dr Murray says), " directly above the joggles, has been in a careful manner cut into as if to receive a metal railing." According to Wood, he adds, this was one of the inner bases, but as a railing here would serve no purpose, Dr Mur- ray thought that the base must have belonged to the outer row. Figs. (4, 12, 13.) 4. Dr Murray took over Wood's general plan, which gave a hundred columns, eighteen at each end, making up the thirty-six sculptured columns of Pliny. He proposed, however, a great modification of the steps and platform, in Fig. 5.— Dr Murray's Restoration of Steps in Portico, after Choisy.