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

280 TEMPLE OF DIANA.

and be excited to emulate tliem. To the placing of
statues in front of columns succeeded attaching
them to the columns on little brackets jutting out
from the shaft, as in the triumphal entrance to the
city of Pompeiopolis in Cilicia, in the Stadium at
Cibyra, and in various buildings at Baalbec, Pal-
myra, and Spalatro.

13. The door, roof, and stairs of the Temple.

Before closing the remarks on the plan and
arrangement of the Temple, it is necessary to refer
to three particulars given us by Pliny:—its door,
its roof, and its stairs. Theophrastus tells us that
the doors were made of cypress Avood, the planks
for which had been treasured up for four generations.1
Pliny also, on the authority of Mucianus the Consul,
who visited Bphesus, says :—" The doors (are said)
to be of cypress, and notwithstanding the lapse of
near four hundred years, they continue as good as
new; but it is to be remembered that they were
kept four years in glue. Cypress was chosen in
preference to other woods, because, in addition to
other advantages, it alone has the property of
constantly preserving its beairty and polish."3 In
proof of this he refers to the statue of Vejovis in
the Capitol, Avhich was of this wood, and executed
in the year of Eome 661,3 or 93 B.C.; also to the
juniper roof of the Temple of Diana at Saguntum

1 Theophr. de Historia Planlarum, v. 5.

2 Plin. //. N. xvi. 79. 3 Theophrartus lias 551.