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)

THE TEMPLE OP AETEMIS.

171

Restorations of the Temple of Artemis.

(1) J. T. Wood, Discoveries at Ephesus (1877). Trans,
of Boy. Inst, of British Architects 1883-4, pis. 42-44;
pp. 165-170. The remains of the lower course described
above are only shown in the latter plans of Wood, and
in those of Fergusson.

(2) J. Fergusson, Sessional Bapers of Boy. Inst, of
British Architects, 1876-7, p. 77.

(3) J. Fergusson, Trans, of Boy. Inst, of British Archi-
tects, 1882-3, p. 147; and 1883-4, p. 171.

(4) A. S. Murray (and E. C. Watt), Journ. B.I.B.A.,
3rd ser., vol. iii., p. 41 (Figs. 8, 9). Cf. Cboisy, Hist, de
V Architecture, i., p. 344.

For general accounts of Ephesus and the Temple of Diana, see Guhl,
Ephesiaca (1843); Falkener, Ephesus and the Temple of Diana
(18C2) ; Hicks, Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus., pt. III. The
dimensions are discussed by Hultsch, Arch. Zeit. 18S0, p. 93;
1881, p. 113.

1200. Eectangular block of marble sculptured on two adjacent
faces, and forming a quarter of a square pier. On one
face is a female figure, wearing a long chiton and
diploi'dion, girt at the waist, whose action is that of
a person pulling to the right, both arms being extended
to the left as if she was dragging at some object. On the
face, at right angles to this figure, are the remains of a
male figure, half seated on a mass of rock; he wears the
skin of a lion or of some feline beast of prey. The
greater part of this figure is lost, and its action is
uncertain, but it appears to have been engaged in a
struggle with the female figure.

On account of the lion's skin, the subject has been
interpreted as the contest of Heracles and the Amazon
Hippolyte for the girdle of the latter. Neither figure,