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bead and reel remains above the female figure at the
angle.
On the top of the block part of a circle is chiselled, as
if for the reception of the base of a column : in the centre
of this circle is a hole for a dowel. Portions of similar
tooled circles and dowel holes are to be seen on the top of
four other similar sculptured blocks from the Artemision.
The circle of which these marks are segments would cor-
respond in diameter with the bed of the lowest drum of
the columna caelata already described (H. 1). Hence Mr.
Fergusson (Temples of Ephesus and Didymi, in the
Transactions of Koyal Institute of British Architects, 1877,
p. 85) has conjectured that the sculptured blocks were
portions of square pedestals on which the columnae caelatae
stood. Such sculptured pedestals for columns are not un-
common in Eoman architecture, and are called in in-
scriptions bomospeirce, or bases in the form of altars. Mr.
Wood places these sculptured blocks in the angles of the
frieze of the Artemision, but their thickness seems too
great for a frieze, and there are other objections to this
opinion. Perhaps these blocks belonged to the base of a
great altar such as has been recently found at Pergamon,
and the remains of which are now in the Museum at Berlin.
On this Pergamene base stood a colonnade; see Conze,
Ausgrabungen zu Pergamon, pi. 2, for the restoration of
this altar.
Height, 6 feet 1 inch. Wood, Discoveries at Ephesus, pi. facing
p. 188.
I.—COLOSSAL LION FROM KNIDOS.
This lion was discovered in the course of the Budrum
expedition, 1857-9, on a promontory about three miles to
the east of Knidos. On the site where it was lying were
the remains of a Greek tomb, which consisted of a square
basement surrounded by a peristyle with engaged columns
bead and reel remains above the female figure at the
angle.
On the top of the block part of a circle is chiselled, as
if for the reception of the base of a column : in the centre
of this circle is a hole for a dowel. Portions of similar
tooled circles and dowel holes are to be seen on the top of
four other similar sculptured blocks from the Artemision.
The circle of which these marks are segments would cor-
respond in diameter with the bed of the lowest drum of
the columna caelata already described (H. 1). Hence Mr.
Fergusson (Temples of Ephesus and Didymi, in the
Transactions of Koyal Institute of British Architects, 1877,
p. 85) has conjectured that the sculptured blocks were
portions of square pedestals on which the columnae caelatae
stood. Such sculptured pedestals for columns are not un-
common in Eoman architecture, and are called in in-
scriptions bomospeirce, or bases in the form of altars. Mr.
Wood places these sculptured blocks in the angles of the
frieze of the Artemision, but their thickness seems too
great for a frieze, and there are other objections to this
opinion. Perhaps these blocks belonged to the base of a
great altar such as has been recently found at Pergamon,
and the remains of which are now in the Museum at Berlin.
On this Pergamene base stood a colonnade; see Conze,
Ausgrabungen zu Pergamon, pi. 2, for the restoration of
this altar.
Height, 6 feet 1 inch. Wood, Discoveries at Ephesus, pi. facing
p. 188.
I.—COLOSSAL LION FROM KNIDOS.
This lion was discovered in the course of the Budrum
expedition, 1857-9, on a promontory about three miles to
the east of Knidos. On the site where it was lying were
the remains of a Greek tomb, which consisted of a square
basement surrounded by a peristyle with engaged columns