Hogarth, David G.; Smith, Cecil Harcourt [Contr.]: Excavations at Ephesus: the archaic Artemisia: Text (London, 1908)

24 The Archaic Artemisia of Ephesus.

season. Since the axial passage, had to be left free for transport purposes to
the last, the centre of the cella, containing the rectangular foundation which
Wood called the High Altar, could not be seriously attacked till a late
moment, and thus the discoveries destined to be made thereunder were post-
poned to the last days of the first season.

While this double clearance was proceeding, independent trenches were
opened along the extreme eastern and northern edges of the Temple site as
defined by Wood, in order that his measurements and levels of the whole
Hellenistic platform might be tested by the rediscovery of the remains of the
lowest step and the pavement of the surrounding court, and by the opening out
of the eastern corners. At a later stage short trenches were also cut across
the line of the southern limit, and last of all along the western limit. The
results of these will be stated presently.

(a) Cella and Peristyle.—The re-clearance of Wood's rubbish from the
platform naturally led to few discoveries or observations of importance, and the
result can be quickly stated, (i) All the fragments of early reliefs, which we
add to Wood's collection (with two exceptions which occurred in rammed earth
between north-eastern marginal piers of Hellenistic date, whose examination
will be described below), were found either in his heaps or in holes
between patches of Croesus pavement, filled with alluvial silt ; that is to say,
although all had doubtless been used as filling for the Hellenistic foundations,
none (except the two first-mentioned) were found by us in the positions in
which the Hellenistic builders had placed them. One fragment, of early
sculpture was extracted from a mass of Byzantine concrete. (2) Our fragments
of Hellenistic sculpture all occurred among Wood's rubbish left on the platform.
Of our fragments of Roman sculpture a large proportion was found in the
trenches dug along the skirts of the later platform, and had been lying on
the lowest step, on the paving of the surrounding courtyard, or in the
marginal gutter. In these trenches no objects other than Roman occurred.
(3) Architectural fragments in considerable number were recovered. (4) The
few unpublished inscriptions on stone, found by us, lay in superficial rubbish,
but not all in debris disturbed by Wood. One occurred in a patch neglected
by him near the north-eastern corner, and another in a similar patch on
the south-west cch^c of the Hellenistic platform. Others were i'numl in the
Precinct, and the rest on the platform, where they had escaped notice in his
operations. Six were extracted from masses ot Byzantine concrete. All,
without exception, were astray from their original situations, and all, as will be
stated in a later volume (where their exact find-spots will be given), are of a