20 DIANA'S TEMPLE AT EPHESUS. to the bases and the spaces between them seem to have been equal squares as at Priene and Miletus.* The noble capitals seem to be the parent examples of the whole later Ionian group. (Fig. 17.) The extreme dimension is about 8 feet 7 inches — the same as the plinth block ; its height is about half a diameter over the volutes as at the Mausoleum and Priene. The faces of the volutes are not vertical, but lean outward toward the top. The rolls of the volutes at the sides are divided into four large flutes,f the bottoms of which are filled by palm- ettes. (Figs. 18, 19.) Cockerell drew a capital almost exactly similar at Sardis which he said was the most beautiful he had ever seen. The abacus is not square, but about 9 inches longer in the direc- tion of the epistyle. In front of the capital are three enormous "eg _gs" of an egg and tongue moulding which at Priene and the Mauso- leum became continuous, the eggs being the same in number as the flutes of the column. This is clearly a development. The columns of the little less in diameter than Wood says that the inner Fig. 18. Fig. 19. Volutes of the Capitals. inner row seem to those outside. It have been a is true that columns were of the same diameter as the outer ones, but
- "This plinth," say Rayet and Thomas, "is characteristic of the Ionic
order of Asia Minor as found at Priene, Ephesus, the Mausoleum [this only inferred], and at Miletus." t This is derived from Old Temple.
