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 THE TOMB OF MAUSOLUS. 4I type, and (b) the large plan type. In the type A the 36 columns are arranged in two rows, in the type B in a single row. (See Fig- 3I-) The Peristyle. I have felt that it might be possible, by a detailed examina- tion of the order, to obtain data which should offer proofs of one or the other types of restoration proposed ; for in the order of the Mausoleum, if anywhere, we may expect an example of systematic relation of parts. Vitruvius tells us how Pythios, its architect, with other contemporaries, gave up the Doric order because of the incongruous arrangements which arose in its use, and how Pythios wrote commentaries on architecture and a special description of the Temple of Athene at Priene, of which he was also the architect, at a later time. Moreover, " Satyrus and Phyteus,* who were very fortunate," wrote on the Mausoleum itself The beautiful order of the Mausoleum, says Laloux, was considered to have " particularly happy proportions, and they were copied in the principal pro- ductions of the school of Pythios." Adler speaks with less than enthusiasm of the order, but he judged only from poor, dry, and inaccurate prints. The actual stones at the Museum are surely very beautiful. It is most difficult to get any statement of accurate dimen- sions of the order. PuUan's measurements, figured on his plates, are acknowledged to be untrustworthy, and the Museum should publish an amended account of the remains. For instance, Pullan gives the small top diameter as 2, 9.65.-]- The Museum Catalogue says that "the diameter at the top of the flutes is 36xV" H^e gives a flute at the bottom as 4.5 inches ; in fact, it is over 5.5. The large diameter he gives as 3, 5.35.! In the Museum Catalogue the bottom diameter is not given, but only the sizes of the two top drums. I have had the advantage of consulting a set of careful, full- sized drawings of this order, made by students of the Archi- t Feet and inches are here written thus : " 2, 9." + The mistake must be, I think, that Pullan intended 3.535 feet.
 * This same Pythios.