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

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308 TEMPLE OE DIANA.

tells us that the statues alone of the Temple would
afford materials for many volumes.1

" The Temple is full of sculpture, almost all by
Praxiteles. I have been shown some works also
by Thrason, the same who executed the Hecatesium,
the fountain Penelope, and the old Buryclea."1
Croesus gave to the Temple at Ephesus some golden
heifers and a number of columns.3

The principal statues in temples were enclosed
by plutea to prevent the too near access of the
worshippers. The enclosure (e%vy.ara.) of the
statue of Jupiter Olympius was decorated with
paintings.1 We have no account of the enclosure
to the statue of Diana ; but that it was richly orna-
mented appears from the description of another
enclosure in this temple :—" In the Temple of the
Bphesian Diana, as you approach to that cell
(oJx7j/Aa) which contains certain pictures, you will
perceive above the altar of Diana, who is called
Protothronia, (high-throned,) a stone enclosure
C^oi-yyog). Upon this enclosure there are other
statues, and an image of a female near its ex-
tremity. This statue was made by Rhoecus, and
the Ephesians call it Night."5

Statues of the Amazons would naturally engage
the attention of the Ephesians. They appear by
the following passage from Pliny, a passage which

1 Plin. Hist. Fat. vii. 38. 2 Strabo, p. 641.

3 Herod, i. 92. 4 Paus. v. 11. 5 Paus. x. 38.
 
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