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

The Primitive Structures. 6i

These slabs were of greenish hue and laminated, of material similar to, but
not quite identical with the earlier schist blocks, and they must be referred
to a later period (D).

(2) The new north and south walls of the Basis were also continued
to the westward and joined by a cross wall so as to enclose the western structures
of A in one oblong with the Basis. Of these continuations the foundations are
all existent. The return of the southern prolongation abuts on the south-
western corner of the western rectangle of A ; but, not lying quite in the same
axial direction as the earlier structures, it falls away at the north-western corner,
leaving a space, • 14 at its widest, which was filled in with rubble. These walls,
like their eastern parts, were from -55 to -6o thick, bedded at —4*85 and faced
on their outward sides only. The small spaces, about ■ 30 wide, left north and
south of the westernmost structure of A, were filled in solid with rubble bonded
in to the outer walls ; but it is a question whether the larger spaces north and
south of the T-shaped structures of A were so made solid or not ; for all filling
there had become loose and indeterminable. Overlying the western wall of the
new enclosure we found some fragments of highly-worked limestone rubbed to a
smooth surface almost like marble. Their level was — \x43, which (if they
represent pavement) must be taken as the floor-level of the western part of the
new rectangle. In this case there was a step or steps up to the Basis at the
eastern end, whose floor lay nearly 1 •00 higher. It should be remarked that at
several points below the foundations of these walls, as prolonged to west, and
in the filling north and south of the western platform, objects of A period were
found. These were too numerous for it to be supposed that all had slipped to
their positions ; nor was the ground here nearly so slimy and liquid as it had
proved to be under the west face of the Basis.

So far there is little or no doubt about B structures. The two original central
platforms were enlarged by restorers and thrown into one block, so as to form
one stepped platform. But it is less easy to be certain what modifications, it
any, took place in the Temenos at this period, more especially since there is
so little evidence to show what its original form and arrangement had been.
Outside the central platform of B we found remains of three rectangles of
enclosing walls. Since one of these obviously represents a further extension
of the platform itself by the addition of a block or vestibule on the west, and
a slight enlargement all round, we have certainly to take into account a second
restoration, i.e., Temple C; and for the other two rectangles, which form outer
enclosures, we must choose among three, not two periods.

The innermost of these two is divided from the limits of the central