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Rh In 1820 several drawings were made of the fragments on the site by the French architect, Huyot, who was in the company of Donaldson, as appears from some sketches made at Priene and Miletus by the latter, now in the Library of the Institute of Architects, on one of which the presence of Huyot is mentioned.

Vulliamy etched several of the capitals of the pilasters, and also the griffin frieze.

I may associate with Miletus the fine bull-headed capital from Cyprus in the British Museum. The ornamental female figure at the side is almost exactly like the "angel" of the

Miletus capital. Other bull-headed capitals have been found at Delos, Ephesus, and other places. A gold pin in the Museum, with a head in the form of such a capital, is the finest design of all of them. The comparison with Miletus goes to show that the Salamis capital is later than it is catalogued. I should date it c. 250-200. It must derive from the Persepolitan capitals.

With these may also be mentioned some fragments from the later Apollo temple built by the Greek colony at Naucratis. These comprise a part of an Ionic capital {c. 250), of which Fig. 196 is a partial restoration; some fragments of an egg and tongue moulding, with an interesting termination against the angle, which I have put together in the restored Fig. 197; also a knot ornament which appears also on a capital recently found at Delos. There are also some still more interesting fragments from an early temple {c. 550-500), being parts of an Ionic column which are to be compared with the archaic order from Ephesus.

The Ionic temple at Teos, excavated by Pullan, was published in the fourth volume of "Ionian Antiquities." There are in the Museum only two slabs of sculptured frieze which were brought away from it, but they are so entirely bad, and fallen