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

pronaos from the peristyle : copper or bronze sockets (one
of these was found in its place) were inserted in these
mortise holes for the reception of the standards, which were
not run with lead as in the present day. In the west front
the plinth of a column of the last temple but two was found
in position, as well as part of the base of one of the inner
columns, consisting of the plinth and lowest circular stone.
The position of these corresponded as nearly as I could
ascertain with that of the columns of the last temple,
giving me satisfactory proof that the last three temples
were built on the same plan, but were raised one above
the other, the remains of the most ancient of the three
temples forming the foundations of the last two. The
discovery of the remains of three temples on the same
site and of the same size accounts for Pliny's statement
that the Temple was j;o years building, the earliest
of the three having been probably commenced, as I
have supposed, about 500 is.e, and the latest in the time
of Alexander the Great. Nearly 4 feet above the
lowest of the three pavements was found the highly
polished white marble pavement of the last temple but
one (the temple burnt by 1 lerostratos). Large patches
remained in position, and were only discovered on the re-
moval of the upper portion of the foundation-piers of the
church. Connected with this pavement were found near
the west wall of the cclla two large marble blocks, resting
upon a massive and solid foundation, in which was cut
the groove for the outer bronze wheel on which the door
of the Temple moved, also the corresponding sinking for
the inner whed. The groove was S inches wide and

Remains

of three
temples.

The last
temple but

one.