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 1 8 DIANA'S TEMPLE AT EPHESUS. We are thus compelled by evidence of the building itself to look for another solution of the question of the distribution of the sculptured drums and pedestals. Measurement of the stones at the British Museum shows first, that the bottom of the fluted columns are exactly the same size as the sculptured drums (Wood says that both are 6 feet ^ inch) ; secondly, that the pedestals and drums are of the same height (6 feet) ; and thirdly, that the pedestals are about the same size across as the diameter of the drums. (Fig. i6.) I say about, because there is nothing which exactly fixes their size, and, as set up at the Museum, they vary from 6 feet i inch to 6 feet 2 inches. 1 suggest, therefore, that the outer row, at one end or both, had the square blocks ranging at the same level with the sculptured drums. I believe the blocks were all found at the west end. On the supposition that we must provide for thirty-six sculptured columns we get rid of any which were doubly sculp- tured. As the returns would have square pedestals on the outside row as well as the fronts, we get only two varieties of bases on the flanks as shown by Fig. 1 1. The Order. I have carefully examined the base at the British Museum,, and can see no sign that the stones which Wood called a plinth made part of a continuous course.* Except the one plain face in front all the rest is broken. Such internal data as can be gathered are all in favour of the blocks having formed a plinth. It was bolted to its foundation by four bolts, three of the holes for which remain, and one of these touches the angle of a fracture, which Dr Murray read as a joggled joint. Such a bolt was, of course, put through the solid stone. (Fig. 4.) These holes really conditioned the fracturing of the stone, or rather the bolts did, for it is clear that the plinth has been roughly yet purposely broken so that the metal might be extracted — a usual phenomenon at ancient ruins. The question of a railing as suggested by Dr Murray hardly touches the point, and I do not doubt that there may have been a railing,
 * The plinths of the Old Temple were also in two stones.