Falkener, Edward: Ephesus and the temple of Diana (London, 1862)

OF THE D1FFEBENT BUILDINGS OF THE CITY. 93

and which, shows a sediment deposited by the flow
of water. The two small rooms in the centre of
the building seem so admirably adapted for the
sudatio and laconicum, that nothing is wanting in
this respect. The angular rooms at the back are
also well protected from cold, and would therefore
answer to the caldarium, or a second tepidarium,
or one of those rooms devoted to exercise, which
were so commonly appended to the Roman thermae.
Two funnel-pipes may be traced in one of these
rooms; others may exist, but as they are worked
in the thickness of the wall, which is finished flush
over them, it is impossible to discover them, except
where the face of the Avail is ruined. The large
room at the back might be the apodyterium, or
undressing-room. Yitruvius then readverts to the
diaulus, after which he describes the exterior
porticos, which he says are the Greek xysti, in
contradistinction to the Roman xysti, which are
open walks skirting the Greek xystus, and called
by the Greeks paradromides, and between these
there ought to be groves, or plantations, with
walks and seats between the trees; and behind
the xystus is to be the stadium. Now in all the
gymnasia of Ephesus Ave find large areas placed in
front of the building, as a substitute for the open
grounds and porticos of the suburban gymnasia,
and these areas it is probable Avere ornamented
with porticos as I have represented ; for in all Ave
find the ground marked out by raised terraces,