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PRIENE, BRANCHED^ & HERACLEIA.
S the weather was dry though cold, on December 8th I left Boujah by rail for Gelat-
kave,—the extreme point to which the Smyrna and Aidin Railway was then open. My
servant the sapper, who had recently arrived from Corfu, remained for the night at a cafe
near the station, in charge of the horses and baggage, while I rode on to the villngc
of Salatine,—where there was a little colony of railway employes, to spend the night at
the house of some friends. Two of these gentlemen accompanied me to Aisalook the next
morning. There my man and horses were to have met me. As, however, they did not
make their appearance, I spent the day in visiting the ruins of Ephesus for the second time. The present
aspect of this celebrated city has been so frequently described by former travellers that there is but little
left to say about it. All the remains above ground are of the Roman period.
There are no traces of the site of the Temple of Diana amongst the ruins. In the piers of an aqueduct built in
the Byzantine or early Turkish times to supply the castle at Aisalook—which is two miles distant from the ancient
city—with water, I noticed several pieces of white marble lacunaria and Greek honeysuckle ornaments, which,
from their dimensions and the- superior quality of execution, must have been brought from a building of the
size and style of the Temple of Diana. Eor instance, amongst them was an ovolo moulding 9 inches in depth,
and a piece of the flute of a column, measuring 6 inches from fillet to fillet. These must have belonged to
a Greek building of vast dimensions, and there are no traces of such a building amongst the ruins now
visible at Ephesus.
The temple probably stood at the head of the port, where are the ruins of a building called the Great
Gymnasium. The fragments of large porphyry columns which lie near, and which correspond with the two
now in the mosque of Aisalook, could not have belonged to the peristyle of the temple,—which was of the
Ionic order, and therefore would have had fluted columns,—but they may have belonged to the hypcethron or
opisthodomos, for we know that a second order (Corinthian) was employed in the Temple of Apollo Branchidce,
in that of Ceres at Eleusis, in that of Jupiter at iEgina, and in the temple at Aizani. (See Plate 14.)
The only ruins of a temple now above ground at Ephesus are those of the temple of Julius Ca)sar and
Rome, which lie at the foot of Mount Coressus, near the great Agora. The temple stood upon a rocky
platform, twenty or thirty feet above the general level of the plain. It had four columns in otitis—immense
monoliths, which have fallen from the platform into the valley below. The stones of the pediment and frieze are
strewn about, but are so little damaged that the portico might be rebuilt without difficulty. The ornamentation
is rich, but it has been worked with the drill. This temple was erected in the time of Augustus.
Near the temple was a half-buried seat, with a good Greek honeysuckle on it. This was almost the only
fragment of early Greek work that I saw amongst the numerous ruins. As the exploration of Ephesus was not
one of the objects of my journey, I made no arrangements for remaining long upon the ground. For a full
account of the ancient and present state of the city, I must refer my readers to Mr. Ealkcncr's interesting
monograph.1 In that work they will find a learned disquisition on the size, form, and site of the Temple of
Diana° and other public buildings, completely illustrated by some of the author's most delicate and beautiful
drawings. t _
As my servant did not make his appearance, I passed the night m the wretched cafe of Aisalook, which
was enlivened by the presence of the commandant of the castle, whose custom was to spend his evenings
there, drinking raki with the cafegee. What with his boisterous conviviality and the attacks of fleas, and the
cold sleep was for some time out of the question.
I waited till the afternoon of the 10th, when, hearing that my man had been seen on the road to
Scala Nuova, I was compelled to proceed to that town upon the only animal that could be procured at the
i Ephesus and the Temple of Diana, by Edward Falkener. Day & Son, London, 18G2.
PRIENE, BRANCHED^ & HERACLEIA.
S the weather was dry though cold, on December 8th I left Boujah by rail for Gelat-
kave,—the extreme point to which the Smyrna and Aidin Railway was then open. My
servant the sapper, who had recently arrived from Corfu, remained for the night at a cafe
near the station, in charge of the horses and baggage, while I rode on to the villngc
of Salatine,—where there was a little colony of railway employes, to spend the night at
the house of some friends. Two of these gentlemen accompanied me to Aisalook the next
morning. There my man and horses were to have met me. As, however, they did not
make their appearance, I spent the day in visiting the ruins of Ephesus for the second time. The present
aspect of this celebrated city has been so frequently described by former travellers that there is but little
left to say about it. All the remains above ground are of the Roman period.
There are no traces of the site of the Temple of Diana amongst the ruins. In the piers of an aqueduct built in
the Byzantine or early Turkish times to supply the castle at Aisalook—which is two miles distant from the ancient
city—with water, I noticed several pieces of white marble lacunaria and Greek honeysuckle ornaments, which,
from their dimensions and the- superior quality of execution, must have been brought from a building of the
size and style of the Temple of Diana. Eor instance, amongst them was an ovolo moulding 9 inches in depth,
and a piece of the flute of a column, measuring 6 inches from fillet to fillet. These must have belonged to
a Greek building of vast dimensions, and there are no traces of such a building amongst the ruins now
visible at Ephesus.
The temple probably stood at the head of the port, where are the ruins of a building called the Great
Gymnasium. The fragments of large porphyry columns which lie near, and which correspond with the two
now in the mosque of Aisalook, could not have belonged to the peristyle of the temple,—which was of the
Ionic order, and therefore would have had fluted columns,—but they may have belonged to the hypcethron or
opisthodomos, for we know that a second order (Corinthian) was employed in the Temple of Apollo Branchidce,
in that of Ceres at Eleusis, in that of Jupiter at iEgina, and in the temple at Aizani. (See Plate 14.)
The only ruins of a temple now above ground at Ephesus are those of the temple of Julius Ca)sar and
Rome, which lie at the foot of Mount Coressus, near the great Agora. The temple stood upon a rocky
platform, twenty or thirty feet above the general level of the plain. It had four columns in otitis—immense
monoliths, which have fallen from the platform into the valley below. The stones of the pediment and frieze are
strewn about, but are so little damaged that the portico might be rebuilt without difficulty. The ornamentation
is rich, but it has been worked with the drill. This temple was erected in the time of Augustus.
Near the temple was a half-buried seat, with a good Greek honeysuckle on it. This was almost the only
fragment of early Greek work that I saw amongst the numerous ruins. As the exploration of Ephesus was not
one of the objects of my journey, I made no arrangements for remaining long upon the ground. For a full
account of the ancient and present state of the city, I must refer my readers to Mr. Ealkcncr's interesting
monograph.1 In that work they will find a learned disquisition on the size, form, and site of the Temple of
Diana° and other public buildings, completely illustrated by some of the author's most delicate and beautiful
drawings. t _
As my servant did not make his appearance, I passed the night m the wretched cafe of Aisalook, which
was enlivened by the presence of the commandant of the castle, whose custom was to spend his evenings
there, drinking raki with the cafegee. What with his boisterous conviviality and the attacks of fleas, and the
cold sleep was for some time out of the question.
I waited till the afternoon of the 10th, when, hearing that my man had been seen on the road to
Scala Nuova, I was compelled to proceed to that town upon the only animal that could be procured at the
i Ephesus and the Temple of Diana, by Edward Falkener. Day & Son, London, 18G2.