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temple,^[1] and Dr Murray would bring those also together—" the old sculptured columns," he says, " may have rested on square sculptured pedestals." But the Old Temple was not raised on a high platform, and the different columns must have stood on the same level.

Other later Ionian temples stand on platforms reached by continuous steps. The Smintheium stood on a platform proportionately higher than that of Ephesus. At Miletus was a

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Fig. 12. — Base, as discovered by Wood (Fig. 14, c.)

temple which, in many respects, was a companion work to the Artemision. The full account of the latest excavations on this site, published in 1904, shows that it was almost the same size and had a continuous flight of steps entirely surrounding it. The columns at the two ends were different from the others in having ornamental bases (not drums).^[2]

1. See B. M. Catalogue, Vol. I., No. 32.
2. The height of the platform was about the same as at Ephesus. At the Smintheium there were eleven steps, at Taos six.