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 DIANAS TEMPLE AT EPHESUS. 17 Fig. 15.— Diagram of Steps. was a rough square pier projecting, as said, is confirmed by the accurate Austrian Survey, so that we may venture to say that there was no con- tinuous marble stylobate such as -suggested by Dr Murray in opposi- tion to Wood's data. Secondly, the theory requires the sweep- ing away of the net- work of foundations which supported the steps and platform outside the columns, which are carefully shown on Wood's plan and sections* (Figs. 2, 14), and con- firmed by the Austrian Survey. Thirdly, Wood found the bottom step of those which surrounded the platform about 40 feet out from the centres of the columns on the north and east sides. Ur Murray had no use for this, and it became a single step in the middle of the narrow space of court which surrounded the temple, and be- tween it and an enclosing colonnade. Now, there are three portions of steps actually at the British Museum, and each one shows plainly that it was followed by at least another step. The only step that Wood speaks of finding is the outer one, and one of those at the Museum must be a part of it; probably the widest one, which, how- ever, shows by a fixing line that only the normal size of S^ inches by 22 inches was exposed. The others are 22 inches wide and deeper than 8^ inches, but the surplus was fitted into a notch in the step below each. (Fig. 15.) Fig. 16. — Pedestals and Drums of Columns compared.
 * R.I. B.A. Journal, Figs. 164, 165, 166. Our Fig. 2 above.