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CHAPTER XVI.
THE SCULPTURES OF THE CROESUS TEMPLE.
By A. H. Smith.
(Atlas XVI.-XVIII. ; Plates L-LI.)
The sculptures of the Croesus temple, preserved in the British Museum,
are mainly derived from the excavations of Mr. J. T. Wood. They
were the subject of prolonged study by Mr. A. S. Murray, who published the
results of his attempts at reconstruction in the Journal of Hellenic Studies,
vol. x. pis. 3, 4, and p. 1. The fragments derived from Mr. Wood's excava-
tions were for the most part described in vol. i. of the Catalogue of Sculpture
in the Department of G)'cek and Roman Antiquities (1892), by A. H. Smith,
and the description in that Catalogue has been made the basis of that which
follows. The additional fragments found during the recent excavations have
also been incorporated in the series, and the whole of the sculptures in the
British Museum which can be assigned with any probability to the archaic
series are shown in the plates.
The majority of the archaic sculptured fragments were found by
Mr. Wood, embedded in the concrete piers, attributed by Mr. Hogarth to
the late Roman or Byzantine period. The additional fragments, obtained
during the recent excavations, were found for the most part under conditions
to which no special significance could be attached. Two pieces, however,
of the parapet sculptures were found in the firmly rammed foundation soil of
the Hellenistic temple, thus furnishing a proof (if any proof is needed) that
the archaic sculptures had been dispersed from their original position before
the work on the later temple was begun.
In the following list, objects obtained from the recent excavations are
distinguished with 7.
THE SCULPTURED COLUMNS.
The archaic fragments from Ephesus include a certain number of
sculptures in high relief, standing out from a ground which forms an arc of
a large circle. The relation of the figures to the background, and the way
CHAPTER XVI.
THE SCULPTURES OF THE CROESUS TEMPLE.
By A. H. Smith.
(Atlas XVI.-XVIII. ; Plates L-LI.)
The sculptures of the Croesus temple, preserved in the British Museum,
are mainly derived from the excavations of Mr. J. T. Wood. They
were the subject of prolonged study by Mr. A. S. Murray, who published the
results of his attempts at reconstruction in the Journal of Hellenic Studies,
vol. x. pis. 3, 4, and p. 1. The fragments derived from Mr. Wood's excava-
tions were for the most part described in vol. i. of the Catalogue of Sculpture
in the Department of G)'cek and Roman Antiquities (1892), by A. H. Smith,
and the description in that Catalogue has been made the basis of that which
follows. The additional fragments found during the recent excavations have
also been incorporated in the series, and the whole of the sculptures in the
British Museum which can be assigned with any probability to the archaic
series are shown in the plates.
The majority of the archaic sculptured fragments were found by
Mr. Wood, embedded in the concrete piers, attributed by Mr. Hogarth to
the late Roman or Byzantine period. The additional fragments, obtained
during the recent excavations, were found for the most part under conditions
to which no special significance could be attached. Two pieces, however,
of the parapet sculptures were found in the firmly rammed foundation soil of
the Hellenistic temple, thus furnishing a proof (if any proof is needed) that
the archaic sculptures had been dispersed from their original position before
the work on the later temple was begun.
In the following list, objects obtained from the recent excavations are
distinguished with 7.
THE SCULPTURED COLUMNS.
The archaic fragments from Ephesus include a certain number of
sculptures in high relief, standing out from a ground which forms an arc of
a large circle. The relation of the figures to the background, and the way