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 12 DIANA'S TEMPLE AT EPHESUS. was more the age of kings than was the fourth. Its reputation as a world's wonder must go back to the earlier date when it was more without rival than at any other time. Herodotus, speaking of the labyrinth of Egypt, says that all the works of the Greeks cost less than it, " though the temple in Ephesus is deserving of mention, and also that in Samos." It is probable, therefore, that Pliny's whole account was a tradition as to the Old Temple. As we have seen, it was exactly the same size as the New Temple; like it, it had architraves of great span and columns with sculptured drums and others with square blocks. The old cella walls. Wood says, were 6.4 thick, of marble, and remarkable for their finish ; one block is shown at the Figs. 8 and 9. (Not to the same scale.] Museum (the masonry added at the sides for the New Temple increased the foundations to 10 feet wide). The columns were about S feet greatest diameter ; the shafts above the sculptured drums were probably monolithic, and one of the purposes of these drums was to shorten the length of the single stones. There are restored capitals and bases at the Museum ; the abacus is very long and narrow, not square as in later capitals ; it is thus a corbel-capital. Amongst the debris of the temple some ox heads were found. Dr Murray, writing to the authors of the volume on Miletus, said, " they seem to me to belong in some way to a capital of the Old Temple." The square attach- ments suggest rather to me that they were engaged in square piers, such as the antae. See Fig. 8, which, however, is doubt-