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DIANA'S TEMPLE AT EPHESUS. II The Austrian Survey concerned itself principally with the archaic temple of the sixth century. Of the Hellenistic temple of the fourth, the authors report that only one stone still remains in situ ; "its forn", however, could not have deviated in any im- portant way from that of the Old Temple. One will not be able to proceed thoroughly to reconstruct it, following the sug- gestions of Murray, and the few of its architectural members which are still to be found on the spot, until all the materials gained in Wood's excavations have been properly drawn and published." I wish I could make good this want, but for us, f ( / A WA Fig. 7. — Data for West Front, a a shows line required by Dr Murray's Scheme. fortunately, the actual stones are published in the Ephesus Gallery of the British Museum. The Old Temple. Chersiphron, the architect mentioned by Pliny, was one of the architects of the sixth century temple, and when the writer says that so many columns were the gift of kings, it is probable that this also applied to the Old Temple, as we know that columns were given to it by Croesus,* and the middle of the sixth century Herodotus, i. 92.