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

246 The Archaic Artemisia of Ephesus.

middle of the century succeeding, room has been found for Temple C ; but
after what interval this replaced its predecessor, there is no evidence to prove.
The extremely poor character of the B foundations and walls, however, suggests
that the second temple was not more than a hasty restoration, which would
probably have been soon superseded. If C was built about the close of the
7th century, or early in the 6th, our inscribed silver plate may be a record of its
origin ; but as has been said, it is preferable, on epigraphic grounds, to regard
that plate as a record of the building of the great Croesus Temple.

Before the founding of A, we must suppose, that in the centuries which
stretch back to the date usually assigned to the Ionian migration, there was
nothing on this site but, at best, the rudest of tree-shrines, and that the Goddess
remained in her primeval home at Ortygia far into the Ionian period. For
Ephesian remains not only of the Aegean Age, but also of the earliest Hellenic
period, search must be made elsewhere than in the Cayster marsh, whose virgin
sand we have probed almost to sea-level, on the most venerable site of the
plain.