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The Sculptures of the Later Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

W. R. Lethaby
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The sculptured drums of the columns of the Ephesian temple are important works both in scale and in beauty. Each of them was nearly twenty feet in circumference and six feet high. The most perfect of the drums, now in the British Museum, had eight life-size figures filling this space (Fig. 1); one of them is obviously Hermes, and the drum which bears it may conveniently be named from this figure.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 33 , November 1913 , pp. 87 - 96
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1913

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References

1 See especially the Munich vase figured in Miss Harrison's Mythology of Athens, Fig. 38. This group in turn is like figures of Zeus and Athene which are found on more than one vase, and it may derive in the first place from the central group in the East front of the Parthenon, (see J.H.S. 1907, p. 244Google Scholar).

2 Compare an illustration under ‘Heracles’ in Daremberg and Saglio where Oraphale wears the lion's skin and Heracles carries the distaff. It is there said that it was a favourite Alexandrian subject. For Heracles and the Amazon compare the fine sarcophagus in the B.M. with the metope of Olympia.

3 The source for the continuous meandering scroll of later days.

4 Deinocrates is said also to have built the wonderful tomb of Arsinoë.

5 The drums are ‘exactly six feet high’ according to Wood; in the British Museum Catalogue they are said to be a quarter of an inch less, while the pedestals are stated to be six feet one inch.