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to the teraple, stood a basin of poq^hyry, 15 feet in diameter, for the 

 worsliipers to lave and purify themselves in. The internal decora- 

 tion was of the most sumptuous kind. The cedar roof Avas support- 

 ed on pillars of jasper ; the doors were of cypress. The altar was 

 the work of Praxiteles, and it was surrounded by many statues, one 



J. T. WOOD, 

 Fellow of the Royal Institute of Britigh Architects. 



of them of gold. The image of the goddess herself was roughly 

 hewed out of wood, black with age, and greasy with the oil with 

 which it was customary to anoint it. When the apostle Paul visited 

 Ephesus in the middle of the first century, the worship of Diana still 



