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

round the cella. This accords with the description of it
by Vitruvius.

The columns of the peristyle were, as* Pliny has
described them, one hundred in number, twenty-seven of
which were the gifts of kings. They were 6 feet o£ inch
in diameter at the base ; and adopting the proportion
given by Vitruvius for the improved Ionic order, that is
8.1, diameters in height independent of the base upon
which they were raised, they would be 55 feet 8| inches
high, including the base. This nearly accords with Pliny's
dimension for the height of the columns, viz., 60 feet
(Roman), a Roman foot being about one-third of an inch
shorter than an English foot. Pliny describes thirty-six
of these hundred columns as ' crelatae' (sculptured), and
I have no doubt they occupied the positions shown on my
plan of the Temple, viz., eighteen at the west end, and
the same number at the east end. The data in our
possession do not enable me to state with certainty to
what height the sculpture of these ' collimnee cadatae ' was
carried up. The medal of Hadrian illustrated by the
woodcut A distinctly represents one tier of figures only
with a band of mouldings above it. The medal of Gor-
dianus, B, published in Piofessor T. L. Donaldson's ' Ar-
chitecture Numismatica.' gives a similar representation;
but the band of mouldings is much higher up the shaft, of
the column. Of the five examples of the sculptured columns
in our possession, the diameter ot three of the frusta or
drums can be clearly ascertained : of these three, two
measure the same at the base as the lowest drums of the
fluted columns (6 feet o\ inch), the third measures only

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columns.