The New Archeological Discoveries And Their Bearing Upon the New Testament And Upon the Life And Times of the Primitive Church
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Luke, but was an ancient pagan edifice altered into a Chris- tian church. They also examined the other Christian monuments, especially the celebrated "double church" — 900 feet long by 100 feet wide, — and found a basilica in the western part of the ancient building, evidently repre- senting the large church of St. Mary in which a great church council was held a.d. 431, the edifice, however, being erected at least a century earlier. They also ex- cavated a smaller sixth century church and found... a great treasure of wonderful bronze lamp stands and a frieze of "hunting Cupids" so fine and large that an entire room has been given up to it in the Vienna Museum; in addition to all this they obtained a large number of priceless statues, among which was one of the finest bronze statues of heroic size known to antiquity, being " Cf. Hogarth, Accidents of an Antiquary's Life, 1910; British Museum, Excavations at Ephesus, 1908; Journal of Hellenic Studies, XXIX, p. 192. 472 THE NEW ARCHEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES that of a Greek athlete originally dating from the first century, but the base of which contains a dedication to the Emperor Constantine.^^ They were also able to publish ninety new and important inscriptions; their work representing, therefore, as the editor well says, not merely a few "sheaves" but a "fresh harvest," gathered from the site of this famous city.
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