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DISCOVERIES AT EPHESUS.
Marcus
Aurelius.
Lack of
workmen.
Third
sculptured
drum.
Temple. The lower tier of columns must also have been
elliptical, and probably of the Ionic order.
The interior of the Temple might have been restored or
rebuilt in the time of Marcus Aurelius, whose name with
that of his wife Faustina and his daughter Fadilla were
found upon the architrave of the west door of the cella,
many fragments of which remained where they had fallen.
The difficulty of getting workmen in sufficient num-
bers continued throughout this season from the causes
already mentioned. During many previous years, when I
had little or no money to spend, I might have obtained
almost any number. Now I had money, but could not get
men. There was, however, an improvement in December,
and the excavations then proceeded much more rapidly.
December 31.?/.—The third sculptured drum of a
column was found on the north side towards the west
end of the excavation. This example is quite different in
character from the sculptured drums previously found, in
which the extreme projection from the surface did not
exceed 4}, inches. In this example the projection is as
much as 13 inches. The diameter of this drum is the
same as that of the first found, and must therefore have
been the lowest drum of the shaft to which it belonged.
The disposition of the two figures is also singular ; they
occupy as much of the circumference of the shaft of the
column as four of the figures in the other drums found
__tnat Js nearly the semi-circumference of the shaft.
This example was probably from one of the inner columns
of the peristyle, where a greater projection of the sculpture
was considered necessary. Unfortunately not enough re-
DISCOVERIES AT EPHESUS.
Marcus
Aurelius.
Lack of
workmen.
Third
sculptured
drum.
Temple. The lower tier of columns must also have been
elliptical, and probably of the Ionic order.
The interior of the Temple might have been restored or
rebuilt in the time of Marcus Aurelius, whose name with
that of his wife Faustina and his daughter Fadilla were
found upon the architrave of the west door of the cella,
many fragments of which remained where they had fallen.
The difficulty of getting workmen in sufficient num-
bers continued throughout this season from the causes
already mentioned. During many previous years, when I
had little or no money to spend, I might have obtained
almost any number. Now I had money, but could not get
men. There was, however, an improvement in December,
and the excavations then proceeded much more rapidly.
December 31.?/.—The third sculptured drum of a
column was found on the north side towards the west
end of the excavation. This example is quite different in
character from the sculptured drums previously found, in
which the extreme projection from the surface did not
exceed 4}, inches. In this example the projection is as
much as 13 inches. The diameter of this drum is the
same as that of the first found, and must therefore have
been the lowest drum of the shaft to which it belonged.
The disposition of the two figures is also singular ; they
occupy as much of the circumference of the shaft of the
column as four of the figures in the other drums found
__tnat Js nearly the semi-circumference of the shaft.
This example was probably from one of the inner columns
of the peristyle, where a greater projection of the sculpture
was considered necessary. Unfortunately not enough re-