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CHAPTER II.
EARLIER RESEARCHES.
By D. G. Hogarth.
A.—Excavations of J. T. Wood.
No material evidence, bearing on the earlier Artemisia, was known before
1870. There were, indeed, certain archaic architectural fragments built into
the walls and the aqueduct of Ayassoluk ; but they remained unremarked,
or not recognised as parts of the Artemision. Representations of the
Temple on coins of the 2nd century a.d. had been used as evidence since the
18th century ; but these portrayed only the latest structure. The site itself was
deeply buried and its precise locality unknown. The earlier modern visitors
to Ephesus identified with the Artemision the colossal remains of a Roman
gymnasium in the west of the city hard by the port ; but this error was
abandoned later in favour of an undefined site in the northern plain at the
required distance of seven stadia outside the city walls. The best guess at
the true position of the temple was made by H. Kiepert in the map which he
supplied in 1843 for Guhl's EpJiesiaca ; but the same cartographer, thirty years
later (1872), and after the true site had actually been found, revived the old
error and placed the Artemision again in the western marsh.
On the last day of 1869, J. T. Wood, working for the British Museum,
struck a marble pavement at a depth of nearly twenty feet. Since the
preceding year he had been following, by means of soundings, an ancient
road which led northwards from the Magnesian gate of the city, and in May
1869 had come upon a wall which was shown by an inscription, built into its
structure, to be that of the Artemision Precinct in the Augustan age. There-
after Wood sank a number of pits, but at first too far down the plain to
westward. Presently, however, acting on the advice of friends, who drew his
attention to the persistent sanctity of the Ayassoluk hill, demonstrated by the
successive foundations of the cathedral church of St. John Theologus and the
Seljuk mosque of Isa Bey, he directed his patient efforts north-eastward, and at
last came upon the Temple pavement about half a mile from the Precinct wall.
He had found the site of the Artemision, and, as it chanced, had first touched
remains of one of the earlier temples, the earliest, indeed, which he was destined
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EARLIER RESEARCHES.
By D. G. Hogarth.
A.—Excavations of J. T. Wood.
No material evidence, bearing on the earlier Artemisia, was known before
1870. There were, indeed, certain archaic architectural fragments built into
the walls and the aqueduct of Ayassoluk ; but they remained unremarked,
or not recognised as parts of the Artemision. Representations of the
Temple on coins of the 2nd century a.d. had been used as evidence since the
18th century ; but these portrayed only the latest structure. The site itself was
deeply buried and its precise locality unknown. The earlier modern visitors
to Ephesus identified with the Artemision the colossal remains of a Roman
gymnasium in the west of the city hard by the port ; but this error was
abandoned later in favour of an undefined site in the northern plain at the
required distance of seven stadia outside the city walls. The best guess at
the true position of the temple was made by H. Kiepert in the map which he
supplied in 1843 for Guhl's EpJiesiaca ; but the same cartographer, thirty years
later (1872), and after the true site had actually been found, revived the old
error and placed the Artemision again in the western marsh.
On the last day of 1869, J. T. Wood, working for the British Museum,
struck a marble pavement at a depth of nearly twenty feet. Since the
preceding year he had been following, by means of soundings, an ancient
road which led northwards from the Magnesian gate of the city, and in May
1869 had come upon a wall which was shown by an inscription, built into its
structure, to be that of the Artemision Precinct in the Augustan age. There-
after Wood sank a number of pits, but at first too far down the plain to
westward. Presently, however, acting on the advice of friends, who drew his
attention to the persistent sanctity of the Ayassoluk hill, demonstrated by the
successive foundations of the cathedral church of St. John Theologus and the
Seljuk mosque of Isa Bey, he directed his patient efforts north-eastward, and at
last came upon the Temple pavement about half a mile from the Precinct wall.
He had found the site of the Artemision, and, as it chanced, had first touched
remains of one of the earlier temples, the earliest, indeed, which he was destined
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