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ceived among the mins of this temple, we may conjecture that it 
was of that order ; but we could no where discover any parts of the 
capitals belonging to the columns, and the bases, if ever there were 
any, are buried under the soil which has accumulated about the 
building. It will be seen by the plate (page 430) that there is a 
building attached to this temple on the northward which has no con- 
nection w ith its original plan ; and there are other remains of build- 
ing beyond these, and to the westward of them, which will require 
excavation to determine their plans. We have already mentioned 
the fragment from which we have ventured to conjecture that the 
temple was dedicated to Diana ; and we may add that a mutilated 
female figure (of which we have given a drawing, page 427) was 
also found close to its northern wall. The statue, it will be seen, is 
in a sitting position ; and a part of the chair only was visible when 
we first discovered it among the heavy fragments of building with 
which it was encumbered, as well as with the soil which had 
accumulated about it. We succeeded, however, after some trouble 
in clearing it, and were rather disappointed at finding so little 
of it remaining. The girdle which encircles the waist of this 
figure has been executed with great care and precision; it is 
represented as closely tied, and the ends of it, which hang down 
in front, are finished with little tassels strongly relieved from 
the surface of the drapery; this object, in fact, seems to have 
been one of primary importance with the sculptor, and may have 
been intended (if we suppose it to have been the statue of 
Diana) to point out symbolically the peculiar characteristic of 
