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

THE CELEBRATED TEMPLE. 251

Carlo Fea shows that the expression columnce uno e
scapo, could never have been used by any Latin
writer.1 The expression uno a Scopa, although less
repugnant to the original, is still improbable. The
design and execution of one column ornamented
differently to the rest, would naturally require the
skill and taste of a great sculptor; but the design
and model having been once given, the execution
of the thirty-five other columns might be entrusted
to any experienced workman. Canina adduces an
important fact in favour of the probability of Scopas
being employed, although, instead of making use of
it, he unites with Winkelmann in reading uno e
scapo. It is this:—"The Romans, in the latter
period of their history, were in the habit of
employing famous sculptors for the capitals of
their honorary columns."5 He does not give any
examples.3 Another reading, however, has been
suggested, which, while it takes away from Scopas
the credit of having designed one of these columns
or capitals, gives to that artist the designing of
the sculpture of the temple in general:—" ex iis
(columnis) xxxvi. ceelataB. Una Scopa operi praefuit
Chersiphro," &c. Pliny informs us that there were
two sculptors of this name f one who flourished in

1 Winkelmaiin, Hist, de I Art, ii. 234, note.

2 Canina, Arch. Gr. par. i. cap. iv. p. 176, note.

8 The value of the works of this otherwise diligent writer is
greatly lessened by a too frequent omission of the authors' names
from whose works his own have been compiled.

4 Din. //. JV. xxxiv. 19.