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

42 The Archaic Artemisia of Ephesus.

channel through the north-western corner of the Basis, we becran to dredge the
ooze near that point, finding fragments of a foundation lying to south of the
westward prolongation of the north extension-wall of the Basis. Under these
when removed, and also where no such foundations existed, objects occurred
abundantly, the prolific stratum being about ' 50 thick and resting on the black
bottom-sand. Here were found that day among ivories, a Sphinx, a miniature
chariot wheel, an incised dish, a lotus-handle, and a broken curved handle ;
several crystal studs and roundels, a large onyx bead or pin-head, a silver
gilt hilt-plate, a good deal of pottery, including four small painted aryballi,
and many bronze ornaments, some showing traces of gilding. One shapeless
oxydised lump found with these, when cleaned, proved to be a small statuette
of the goddess. Bone pendants, of the form illustrated on plate xxxv., occurred
in considerable numbers. To these were added next day a painted hawk in
glazed terracotta, found immediately beneath a stone belonging to the low
broken foundation described above as extending southwards from the north-
western angle of the Basis; the following ivories — a female statuette with
spindle, whose head was recovered later in the sieves, a lion, a fragment of a
horse's head, and a recumbent goat ; a large bronze statuette of the goddess,
and four terracotta statuettes ; an electrum hawk, two silver ditto, one with a
gold collar, eight electrum coins, a lion-head pendant, and many miscellaneous
fragments of ornaments in precious metals and bronze. All these lay in the
bottom stratum and in most cases deep down in the stratum ; e.g., the statuette,
figured on plate xiw, was discovered lying on the black sand itself.

It is unnecessary to prolong a list whose items will appear in a later section.
In describing the excavation of the rest of the western area I shall make
mention only in general terms of the objects found, leaving particular specifica-
tions for a later section, except in the case of a few objects of peculiar interest.

The open space immediately in front of the Basis was exhausted after a
week's work, and was found to be bounded on the west by a rectangular
structure or foundation of small limestone blocks, whose centre was filled in with
stones and sand, with hardly any admixture of precious objects or pottery, except
four electrum coins. The whole structure was based on yellow clay-like sand,
which in turn rested, like the bed of a structure connecting it with the platform
projecting from the Basis, on the black sand. The intervals between the walls
of these structures and the nearest lines of foundations running east and west (v.
plan, Atlas, II.), were more productive, being filled in with rammed earth
and pebbles, and containing several objects—ivory fragments, perished paste,
crystals. A small jar containing nineteen electrum coins, found in the south