Length, 7 inches. Wood, Ephesus, p. 245; Journ. of Hellen. Studies, X., p. 9.
27.Fluted fragment of column. The drum to which this fragment belonged was 4 feet 3 inches in diameter, and had 40 flutings.
Height, 1 foot 10 inches; width, 3 feet 6 inches.
28.Fragment of the base of an unfinished column, with torus moulding and horizontal flutings only partially carried out.
Height, 1 foot 4 inches; width, 3 feet. Journ. of Hellen. Studies, X., p. 5, part of fig. 3b.
29.Base of sculptured column. The column has necessarily been reconstructed from various fragments, which cannot be proved to have belonged originally to the same column, but the combined fragments serve to give a general idea of the appearance of the column. ([Plate I.])
1.The sculpture is surmounted by an egg and tongue moulding 11½ inches high, which is not shown in the plate, Journ. of Hellen. Studies, x., pl. 3. There are considerable remains of red paint.
2.Immediately below the sculptures is a moulding, which contains fragments inscribed as follows:
ΒΑ ΚΡ ΑΝ ΕΝ,
which have been restored as Βα[σιλεὺς] Κρ[οῖσος] ἀν[έθηκ]εν. 'King Croesus dedicated (the column).' It is known from a statement of Herodotus that Croesus gave most of the columns of the temple at Ephesus [Herod. i. 92, Κροίσῳ δὲ ἔστι καὶ ἄλλα ἀναθήματα ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι πολλά . . . ἐν δὲ Ἐφέσῳ αἵ τε βόες αἱ χρύσεαι καὶ τῶν κιόνων αἱ πολλαί]. It is probable that the columns were inscribed with dedicatory inscriptions, of which we here have fragments. The later temple had a similar series of inscriptions. The columns offered by Croesus must be earlier than the date of his fall, 546 b.c. The inscriptions are no doubt of the same age as the columns, and they may have been seen by Herodotus (Hicks, Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus., dxviii.).
3.Below the moulding is the restoration of an early Ionic base. (Journ. of Hellen. Studies, x., pl. 3, and p. 8).
The following fragments are inserted in the restoration of the sculptured base:—
4.Upper part of male figure in high relief standing to the right, wearing a close-fitting tunic, with sleeves to the elbows, and having a lion's skin about the body and with long hair. The upper part of the face is broken away. The right arm was bent at the elbow, and crossed the body.
Height, 2 feet. Journ. of Hellen. Studies, X., pl. 3.