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 DIANA'S TEMPLE AT EPHESUS. 19 but the 8-inch by 4-inch cavity sunk about 10 inches into one side of the base seems to me rather a mending of the lower member than the fixing mark of such a railing. (Fig. 13.) Reasons for the stones having formed a plinth, besides these, and Wood's testimony, are the facts that the size, about 8 feet 7 inches, works out to half a columniation as at Priene and Miletus, and the whole base resembles those of the companion works just named. With the plinth the height of the base is two-thirds of a diameter, a fair proportion ; but, without it, it is impossibly low. Fig. 17. — Capital of Column, from Wood. Of the columns the bottom diameter is 6 feet J inch, and the top diameter is 4 feet 9J inches, about four-fifths of the lower dimension. Wood noticed that the columns decreased rapidly towards the top, which is also a characteristic of the columns of the Mausoleum. The distance from centre to centre on the flanks was 17 feet i^ inches — this is nearly the same intercolum- niation of i4 diameter,* used at Priene ; the Mausoleum seems to have been about if, and Miletus was i|. The exact spacing was settled by that of the old Temple of Diana, but the plinths
 * Rayet and Thomas. Intercolumniation = the clear space.