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Peribo-
lus wall of
Temenos
dis-
covered.
Interest-
ing in-
scriptions.
I now carefully studied the ground in the immediate
neighbourhood of the morsel of wall found near the olive
trees. I observed that the wall took the same direction as
that of a modern boundary which formed an angle near
the trench I had dug. Suspecting that the modern boun-
dary might mark the position of an ancient wall, I cut
another large trench and hit most fortunately upon the
angle of the wall into which were built two large stones,
equidistant from the angle, with duplicate inscriptions
in Latin and Greek, by which we are informed that
this wall was built by order of Augustus in the twelfth
year of his Consulate and the eighteenth year of his
1 ribunitian power B.C. 6 and that it was to be paid
for and maintained out of the revenues of the Artc-
misium and the Augusteum. This was therefore, with-
out doubt, the peribolus wall of the Temenos of the
Temple of Artemis, described by Tacitus as ha\ in-
been built by Augustus to restrict the limits of the
sanctuary or asylum for criminals which had been un-
duly enlarged by Alexander the Great, Mithridates, and
Mark Antony.
The Pasha of Smyrna, who had expressed a wisli to
be informed when I found the Temple in duplicate, had
left long before these inscriptions were discovered, or 1
should certainly have sent him notice of this discovery of
an inscription in duplicate, the only one, as it so happened,
found at Ephesus, and therefore a lawful prize for the
Turkish authorities. I had one of the inscribed ston< s
afterwards conveyed to Smyrna, and formally handed ii
over to the Turkish commissioner who was appointed t"
lus wall of
Temenos
dis-
covered.
Interest-
ing in-
scriptions.
I now carefully studied the ground in the immediate
neighbourhood of the morsel of wall found near the olive
trees. I observed that the wall took the same direction as
that of a modern boundary which formed an angle near
the trench I had dug. Suspecting that the modern boun-
dary might mark the position of an ancient wall, I cut
another large trench and hit most fortunately upon the
angle of the wall into which were built two large stones,
equidistant from the angle, with duplicate inscriptions
in Latin and Greek, by which we are informed that
this wall was built by order of Augustus in the twelfth
year of his Consulate and the eighteenth year of his
1 ribunitian power B.C. 6 and that it was to be paid
for and maintained out of the revenues of the Artc-
misium and the Augusteum. This was therefore, with-
out doubt, the peribolus wall of the Temenos of the
Temple of Artemis, described by Tacitus as ha\ in-
been built by Augustus to restrict the limits of the
sanctuary or asylum for criminals which had been un-
duly enlarged by Alexander the Great, Mithridates, and
Mark Antony.
The Pasha of Smyrna, who had expressed a wisli to
be informed when I found the Temple in duplicate, had
left long before these inscriptions were discovered, or 1
should certainly have sent him notice of this discovery of
an inscription in duplicate, the only one, as it so happened,
found at Ephesus, and therefore a lawful prize for the
Turkish authorities. I had one of the inscribed ston< s
afterwards conveyed to Smyrna, and formally handed ii
over to the Turkish commissioner who was appointed t"