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 DIANA S TEMPLE AT EPHESUS. 29 a remnant at the British Museum of the triglyph frieze (No. 2,562), 18 inches high. Outside all was the great precinct wall, about 12 feet high, of which Wood gives a diagram. Amongst the fragments are a base of a column 5.6 in diameter (Fig. 26), and a piece of guilloche moulding (Fig. 27). Sculpture and Colour. A skilful restoration of one of the sculptured drums of the archaic temple set up by Dr Murray is shown in the Ephesus Gallery. Of the later temple, portions of four pedestals have been pieced together, and on these are set the sculptured tam- bours of the columns. The merits of the sculptures are hardly sufficiently recognised. Reliefs so noble in style are indeed difficult to find. The standing figures of one of the columns are obviously inspired by the " Magistrates " of the Parthenon. The seated figures, on the drum of which I have attempted a restoration (Fig. 28), recall the goddesses of the same frieze, and the style of all has affinity with the finest Attic sepulchral reliefs.* The gracious forms, severe while sweet, and at once broad and ■detailed in their treatment, follow the high traditions of the fifth century. Their scale is that of nature, and taking this exceptional fact into account, they hold a place amongst the few most perfect architectural sculptures of Greek art. The Hermes has been found copied, as Dr Waldstein has shown, on the silver patera of Bernay. The sculptures of the square pedestals, in higher relief and more violent action, seem to belong to a more advanced school. I suppose that they held the most important place in the front rank of the por- tico, and that here we find the work or direct influence of Scopas. •(Fig. 3.) Fig. 27.
 * See Figure in Anderson and Spiers' " Greek and Roman Architecture."