Wood, John T.: Discoveries at Ephesus: including the site and remains of the Great Temple of Diana (London, 1877)

COLUMNS OF TILE TEMPLE.

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the first mitrailleuse taken from the French, which
attracted a crowd of inquisitive people from morning' to
night. The Germans were by that time very confident
of success. By way of Vienna and Trieste we finally
reached Smyrna September 29th, and October 3rd 1
resumed the excavations on the site of the Temple, by
cutting an easy road for the barrow-men to the bottom
of the large excavation. This took me from 12 to 14
days with the few men I could at first obtain. I then
continued to enlarge the holes already dug, and opened
new ones.

Towards the end of October the lower part of the
village of Ayasalouk was again deluged with the heavy
rains, as it had been during the month of March. Some
of the inhabitants narrowly escaped being drowned.
Everything was set afloat in the cafes, and the water
found its way more freely than before into the excava-
tions, Georgie, the ganger, valuing the damage to us at
two thousand piastres (nearly 18/.).

Before the end of this month I had considerably
enlarged the excavation which had laid bare a great por-
tion of one of the foundation piers for the columns of
the peristyle, and exposed to view the goodly sight of
hall-a-dozen large drums of the columns themselves,
which had fallen upon one of the outer piers on the south
(lank of the Temple, and had been caught by this pier,
and a wall connecting it with the adjoining pier. 1 he
sight of this group of fluted blocks, with a fragment of
one of tin- capitals, encouraged the hope that on opening
up the whole site much more would be found remaining ;

Heavy

rains.

(Ictober
1870.

Drums of
columns

found.