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

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The Archaic Artemisia of Ephesus.

Roman period or later, if fallen blocks of the Hellenistic Temple be not counted.
The latter lay most thickly on the north side, where the foundations of a row of
kilns probably explain their presence. They were in fact remnants of a collection
of material made by lime-burners. These kilns stood at a higher level than,
and partly over, the lowest step of the Hellenistic ;W/tt///, where preserved, and
account to some extent for its exceptionally good preservation on this flank.
From the appearance of the deposit it was evident that Wood had not reached

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the level of the lowest step, much less that of the courtyard pavement, except
at a few points, e.g., in the east centre, where a short length of step is preserved.
Elsewhere the lower limit of his disturbance lay about -40 above the; courtyard
pavement and roughly on a level with the Croesus stylobate. Below his limit
we found various objects, none of any importance, e.g., two colossal marble
hands of coarse style on the north central margin, a marble loot in the south-east,
a Roman inscription on a re-used block in the north-cast, opaque glass roundels
in the south-east gutter, and many imperial bronze coins, the majority being
found in the gutters (big. 7).