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 THESEUM, ERECHTHEUM, AND OTHER WORKS. Fig. 190. — Priene, detail from Lacunaria. the last explorations at Ephesus have been published, and the early temple is restored without a frieze. Now, the early and later temples at Ephesus, the Mausoleum, and Priene form a series, of which the first and the last are admittted to have had no friezes. The facts in regard to the other two point in the same direction, the analogy with the others, together with a general Ionian tradition, are sufficient grounds for our ac- cepting it as proved that all four had no friezes.* The Priene capitals at the Museum are almost exactly like those of the Mausoleum. 1 give a restoration of the palmette ornaments, which were largely undercut as the>' passed over the eggs and tongues. At Berlin there is an angle volute with a palmette ornament at the back like those of the Mausoleum. (Fig. 44.) At the inner angle the volutes were complete, as shown by the engraving in " Antiquities of Ionia," and in a sketch by Huyot given in " Didymes." The finished eyes of the volutes were marble studs inserted into sunk circles. One of the unfinished eyes shows slight indica- tions of lines and the centres from which the curve was struck. Some of the frag- ments of carved mouldings are picked out in colour. (See coloured plate in Rayet and Thomas' work.) At the angle of the cornice in the square space between the Mausoleum which, except in regard to the details of the order, agrees with the scheme set out above in Part II. Fig. 191. — Priene, Capitals of Propylrea.
 * Dinsmoor in American Jour. Arch!., 1908 : a valuable article on the