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Smith, Arthur H. [Hrsg.]; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Hrsg.]
Catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Band 2) — London, 1900

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PART VI.
EPHESUS, CNIDOS, CI BENE AND SALAMIS.

SCULPTURE AND ARCHITECTURE FROM
THE TEMPLE OP ARTEMIS AT EPHESUS.

The great temple of the Ephesian Artemis, which, like
the Mausoleum, ranked among the Seven Wonders, and of
which the remains are here described, was built to take
the place of an older structure which had been burnt.
The fire was kindled by Herostratos, an Ephesian citizen,
in order to make his name immortal; and it is said that
this happened on the night of the birth of Alexander the
Great, in the summer of 356 B.C.

The work of reconstruction was begun forthwith.
Portions of the older temple were used as materials in
the foundations of the new building, which stood on the
same ground (cf. vol. i., p. 24). Its columns were sold by
auction; the men contributed their property and the
women their ornaments (cf. No. 1221) towards the cost of
rebuilding (Strabo, xiv., 1. 22). It is said that Alexander
(probably about 334 B.C.) offered to the Ephesians to bear
the entire cost, if he were allowed to have an inscription,
and that the offer was declined. The older temple, how-
ever, had the dedicatory inscription of Croesos (vol. i.,
p. 24), and fragments remain of similar inscriptions on
the later temple (No. 1221). We know also that Priene
 
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