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26 DIANA'S TEMPLE AT EPHESUS. the base of a column . . . and in position a large square block of marble which proved afterwards to be the plinth stone of the base belonging to the more ancient temple. . . . The size is 7 feet 8J inches, while that of the plinths of the last temple is 8 feet 8 inches, but the position appears to have been identical." This was in December 1 870. On the following February : " The fine base of one of the columns on the south flank was dis- covered in position . . . this base is now re-erected in the British Museum. I had now two certain points, viz., the plinth stone of the base near the western end, and another near the centre of the south flank." (Fig. 7.) * By reference to the recent Austrian
- Pp- 174, 176.