Wood, John T.: Modern discoveries on the site of ancient Ephesus (London, 1890)

CHAPTER V.

Description of the Original Temple of
Diana.

The platform on which the temple was raised, called
by Pliny universum tcmphtm, was 239 feet 4.5 inches in
width, measured on the lowest step. The exact length
cannot be given for want of sufficient data, but if the
distance from the lowest step to the portico at the west
end is the same as it has been ascertained to be at the
east end and on the north and south sides, the length
was 418 feet 1^ inches. If, however, there was a wider
space at the west end, as I now believe there was, to
allow of a larger area for the gathering together of
worshippers, and for the altars which probably stood
there, it is possible that Pliny's dimension of 425 feet
was correct, although his dimension of the width is
quite irreconcilable in any reasonable manner with the
facts now ascertained.

There was a flight of ten steps, as described by Philo,
up to the pavement of the platform; and these steps
were 19 inches wide, and barely 8 inches high. Three
more steps, 11 inches high, led up to the pavement of
the peristyle, which was probably on the same level as