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 i6 DIANA'S TEMPLE AT EI'HESUS. Coming now to the crucial objections to Dr Murray's scheme I would point out that it involves the implication that Wood, who explored the site for four or five years, misread plain evidence as to the steps and bases surrounding the temple. He himself appears to be mistaken in saying that Wood had stated that the Museum base and plinth came from the inner row. In Wood's paper in the R.I.B.A. Journal, this base is carefully drawn, and lettered "Foundation of Outer Column of Peristyle " ; and in his book he gives an accurate lithograph of the base stones as found and set up in the British Museum, and describes them pro- perly as from the south flank. (Figs. 12, 14.) This point is of little con- sequence, except that it relieves Wood of having made this mistake. Mur- ray wanted the base to be on the outer row, and Wood had, in fact, stated that it came from that position. But the exigen- cies of the heights, to make it possible to get in the sculptured pedestals where Dr Murray sug- gested, required that he should get rid of any plinth blocks under these bases, and prove that what ^ood had said was such a plinth should be part of a continuous stylobate. (Fig. 13.) Such a view can in no way be brought into harmonj' with Wood's detailed section,* which shows a rough stone foundation pier under the bases projecting 2 feet beyond where Dr Murray's thesis requires a continuous fair marble wall face. (Fig. 7.) That this Fig. 13. — Section of Base.
 * R.I.B.A. Journal, Fig. 163.