One chapter is 8 feet broad. One entire piece of marble is 17 ft. 4 in. long, 3.9½ broad, 3.2½ thick. Of this great structure remain standing only three pillars. Two of them, which are fairer than the others, are joined at top with a transome (architrave) of marble. Each of them are made up of about 16 or 17 pieces of marble, very evenly laid, one upon another, and are of channelled work. The compass of one of them is 19 ft. 6 in. ... In the inscription on the other side of the pillar is also found ... so that it is not to be doubted but that these ruins are all that remain of that most magni-
ficent temple which the idolatrous Milesians erected to Apollo Didymeus." It appears from this that Covel saw a dedicatory inscription, probably on the anta, which, as the sketch which accompanies the description shows, was still standing to its full height. This sketch also indicates a number of short inscriptions on the stones of the cella ; they have been corrupted by the draughtsman, and still more by the engraver, who prepared the similar view for Wheler and Spon.
According to Pontremoli, many of the blocks of the walls still bear quarry marks, usually IE or lEP, signifying that they were for the temple works, together with other variable letters, representing proper names.
