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

The

Temple
doors.

3^ inches deep, and was much worn. The mortise for the
door-frame was also cut in one of these stones. The exact
width of the whole door was thus ascertained, namely, 14
feet Si inches, in two parts, as 'folding doors.' It must
therefore have been nearly 35 feet high. This width,
however, applies with certainty only to the door of the
last temple but one ; the last temple might have had
a wider or narrower door. A few stones of the cella-
wall on the north side were left rough inside, as if some-
thing had been here fitted against it. The blocks com-
posing the wall were cramped together with long cramps
in an oblique direction for the whole depth of each course,
and the ends were turned inward and downward and run
with lead.

I have now to complete 1113- description of the last
temple, so far as I have been able to restore it from the
data furnished by the excavations on its site.

The platform upon which the Temple was raised,

called by Pliny the ' universum Templum,' was 418 feet

1 inch by 239 feet 4.1, inches (English), measured on the

lowest step, the dimensions given by Pliny being 425 by

220 feet (Roman). The height of the pavement of the

peristyle from the pavement beyond the platform was

9 feet S-2 inches. The height of each step was little more

' than 8 inches ; fourteen steps, therefore, were needed to

mount to the peristyle. The ' tread' of the steps was 19

inches.

Dimen- The Temple itself was 163 feet g\ inches by 342 feet

Temple ' 6.', inches, and was octastyle, having eight columns in

front ; and dipteral, having two ranks of columns all

The last
temple.

The pint
form.



'