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DIANAS TEMPLE AT EPHESUS. 25 There are at the Museum two stones of the slabs, 8 inches thick, which cased the pediment. In Dr Murray's restoration he has given dentils to the raking cornice, but this is most unusual, if not unexampled. At Priene they were omitted, and the band which took their place was less in depth so as to lighten the raking cornice. The " acroterion " found by Wood, and now at the Museum (it is not set upright), is much too small in scale to have surmounted the pediment. A series of Fig. 23. — Restoration of Gutter. them may have furnished antefixae along the top of the gutter,* but it seems to me to be later in style than the rest. (Fig. 24.) The Plan. Wood's published plans refer to the New Temple. From his text we find that he discovered the positions of at least two of the ancient columns at the west end which are not laid down on his plan. This is what he says : " At last we found part of

  • As on the Sidon sarcophagi.