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278 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. the other hand that since the beginning of the century many of the stones may have been removed by the inhabitants of the neighbouring village of Kouklia. Cesnola places in the centre of the plateau a rectangular mass which represents the substructures of the temple properly speaking, the building figured upon the coins. The corner stones are still in place. This parallelogram is inclosed in another, very much larger and with a massive boundary wall, the foundations of which still exist at almost every point on its circumference. These are mostly sunk far beneath the surface, but a few blocks FIG. 200. Plan of the remains of the temple at Paphos. From Gerhard. which still stand above it are of very large size ; one is about eighteen feet long by nine feet wide. The stones of the temple itself, though less than this, are still very large. In this we recognize that Syrian love for huge units of construction which is so evident in the walls of Jerusalem and Arvad, and in the famous temples of Baalbek. The temple itself was 224 feet long by 165 wide, and the outer inclosure 700 feet by 630 ; these measurements are furnished by Cesnola, but he does not guarantee their minute accuracy. 1 The outer wall was pierced by doorways, and in one the marks of 1 CESNOLA, Cyprus, pp. 210 213.