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40 MODERN DISCOVERIES AT ANCIENT EPHESUS.
found remains of what I presume must have been the
tomb of Androclus. Pausanias describes this tomb and
the temple of Jupiter as being on the road from the
Magnesian gate to the temple. Six hundred feet beyond
the tomb of Androclus I found the road I had been
searching for leading off at right angles towards Ayas-
alouk. This road was forty-five feet wide, ten feet wider
than the road I had been following, and it had handsome
sarcophagi on each side. At the time I found this road,
I had nearly come to the end of my grant, and the barley
had grown up to its full height, about eight feet. I had
no means of compensating the land-owners if I cut down
the barley ; but tracing the direction of the road by taking
advantage of one or two boundaries which crossed it at
right angles, I saw that it pointed to a modern boundary,
marked by some old olive-trees and bushes of the Agnus
Castris, which had long before attracted my attention. I
now determined to put on a dozen men at this point, and
make a more extensive excavation. This resulted in the
discovery of a thick wall of rough masonry. Extending
the excavation, I struck upon the angle of the wall, and
at about eight feet below the surface, laid bare two
inscriptions on the south side which were repeated on
the west side. These inscriptions showed that I had
discovered the peribolus wall of the temple described by
Tacitus, which was built by Augustus to restrict the
tcmenos or sacred precinct which had approached too
near the city and facilitated the escape of the wrong-
doer.
This important discovery was made on May a, 1869.
The search for the temple had commenced on May 2,
1863 ; and consulting my diaries I found that during
found remains of what I presume must have been the
tomb of Androclus. Pausanias describes this tomb and
the temple of Jupiter as being on the road from the
Magnesian gate to the temple. Six hundred feet beyond
the tomb of Androclus I found the road I had been
searching for leading off at right angles towards Ayas-
alouk. This road was forty-five feet wide, ten feet wider
than the road I had been following, and it had handsome
sarcophagi on each side. At the time I found this road,
I had nearly come to the end of my grant, and the barley
had grown up to its full height, about eight feet. I had
no means of compensating the land-owners if I cut down
the barley ; but tracing the direction of the road by taking
advantage of one or two boundaries which crossed it at
right angles, I saw that it pointed to a modern boundary,
marked by some old olive-trees and bushes of the Agnus
Castris, which had long before attracted my attention. I
now determined to put on a dozen men at this point, and
make a more extensive excavation. This resulted in the
discovery of a thick wall of rough masonry. Extending
the excavation, I struck upon the angle of the wall, and
at about eight feet below the surface, laid bare two
inscriptions on the south side which were repeated on
the west side. These inscriptions showed that I had
discovered the peribolus wall of the temple described by
Tacitus, which was built by Augustus to restrict the
tcmenos or sacred precinct which had approached too
near the city and facilitated the escape of the wrong-
doer.
This important discovery was made on May a, 1869.
The search for the temple had commenced on May 2,
1863 ; and consulting my diaries I found that during