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

264 TEMPLE OF DIANA.

row consists of circles filled in with black and light
blue alternately; the second yellow and dark blue
alternately; and the third black and light blue as
the first. And in the sides of the capitals "the
bronze nails are also introduced in the centre flutes,
and each alternate one; by which some metal
ornament was suspended, corresponding to those
of the front." x

The Temple of Minerva Polias at Priene affords
another instance of toreutic ornament, though more
simple than the foregoing example; it having the
eyes of the volutes perforated for the reception of
some coloured material, whether metal or a gem.
It would be extremely interesting to discover
whether only the inner columns of the pronaos
and posticum were so ornamented, or the outer ones
also. If in the former case, this would afford
another instance of the design and motive for such
decoration ; although it is quite possible that all
the columns might be equally decorated. Another
precisely similar example occurs in an Ionic cap
now in our museum, but found near Athens, and
published by Inwood.2

Having thus pointed out the origin of this mode
of decoration, its object and intention, the evidence
of its practice, and lastly, directed attention to some

1 Iuwood, Erechthaium, p. 5, pi. iv. and v. In the plate accom-
panying the report published in the Trans, of the li. Inst, of Brit.
Arch, these colours are given differently.

2 Id. p. 19, pi. xxiii.