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Falkener, Edward
Ephesus and the temple of Diana — London, 1862

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238 TEMPLE OF DIANA.

step.1 " It seems probable that seven of the steps
formed the ascent to the peribolus with which the
Temple was surrounded : this, like those of the
Temple of Jupiter Olympius at Athens, and
Minerva Polias at Priene, was without doubt con-
siderably raised above the level of the natural
soil : Chandler (Ion. Antiq. i.) informs us that the
peribolus of the latter temple was raised above
twenty feet."3 Revett, the architect, was of the
same opinion as regards the steps of the peribolus.3
Fischer affirms that some medals show the ten
steps.'4

Chandler's description here is ambiguous and
inaccurate. The peribolus of the Temple of
Minerva at Priene is not raised on all sides, but
only on one side, for the city being built on the
slope of a hill, the' temple stands on an artificial
terrace. The peribolus of the Temple of Jupiter
Olympius in like manner is of irregular height
by reason of the inequality of the ground. It is

1 Stuart, Athens, iii. 15. Mr. Penrose has determined the
measure of the Parthenon, and finds the breadth to be 101'330 feet
English. Consequently the

Greek foot = 1-0133 feet Eng.

Ptoman „ = -972768

GOO Greek feet 1 ' ,. ... no

} = 1 stadium = G07-9S
625 Koman „ J

8 stadia = 1 Roman mile = 4855-84 „

2 Wilkins, Mag. Grace, p. xxi.

3 .MS. note to Chandler, i. 1G9.

4 J. B. Fischer, Mntwurf eincr Hist. Arch. tab. vii.
 
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