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

The Primitive Structures. 63

of A as of B. Moreover, several objects of A period were discovered when the
foundations of the south wall of this enclosure were lifted. If these walls are
not of A, they cannot any better be referred to the period at which the second
enlargement of the Basis was carried out, i.e., C; for, as is apparent on the
plan, they approach too near to the limits of that enlargement for any use to
have been made of the interspaces. As foundations of C walls they are quite
meaningless. As foundations of B walls they enclose an ambulatory or passage
of an average width of ' 78 on the north and south and 1 • 45 on the east,
running round the platform, and they may very well define the ground plan
of a naos or cclla erected to cover the B platform. Such a building would
have had an internal breadth of about 8-oo and a length of not less than
16-50, this proportion being once more1 that most usual in Hellenic celiac.

It is practically certain that the pavement level of the Temenos was now
raised very considerably, since some parts of the walls of B period are not
bedded much lower than — 4*50. Indeed, the floor level may very well have
been brought up throughout to that of the slabs found by us on the west
edge of the central platform, viz., —4-43.

Possible reasons for the enlargement of the Central Basis and construc-
tion of a wall uniting it in one oblong with the west platform will be given
later.

Temple C.

Yet another reconstruction and a fresh amplification of the Primitive
Artemision were undertaken, for which we found evidence more comjalete
and satisfactory than exists for the previous restoration. The foundations
of the edifice which we call C lie generally at a higher level than those of
B, usually descending not lower than — 4*50. They are bedded on clay,
which rests on a stratum of stones and earth, overlying the marsh sand,
and composed to some extent of ddbris of earlier constructions. The axial
direction of C coincides with that of B.

In this case again we have the indubitable evidence afforded by another
enlargement of the Basis and Central Platform. We found remains of new
foundations built against the north and south sides, so as to widen the
platform by about 1 • 20, the new abutments varying from "55 to '64 in
thickness. On the north-east the new foundation was preserved up to
— 3-52, i.e., for almost i-oo above the clay bed and exactly up to the floor-
level of B (see p. 60); but as the north abutment was opened out by us

1 See p. 56 above for probable proportions of the original Temenos,