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 50 THE TOMB OF MAUSOLUS. In the first half of last century, Professor Donaldson had observed many fragments of shafts, capitals, and other orna- ments of a "superb Ionic edifice" on the site of Halicarnassus, which he seems to have identified as having belonged to the Mausoleum. In publishing an engraving of a pilaster capital he said: "In general character it is similar to the pilaster capitals of the Temple of Priene and of the Temple of Apollo near Miletus, but the rosettes and torches are additional orna- ments, in allusion probably to the rites of the edifice of which the fragment formed a part."* (Fig. 40.) In 1846 thirteen slabs of the sculptured frieze were brought to the Museum. 1. With these evidences in addition to the texts, Cockerell made a restoration, and he doubtless obtained from Donaldson some idea of the scale of the Ionic order he had noted. He arranged the columns in a double rank, showing 7 and 6 to the outside (a. Fig. 31), and surrounding a very small cella.f 2. After the e.xcavations Newton and Pullan published in 1862 their results, together with a restoration. While they arrived, as I consider, at the general form of the monument, thes- did so in rather an inconclusive way. They presented their facts most inaccurately, and made little distinction between them and their own suggestions. The order is not properly worked out. No pedestal is set on the pyramid. The wide span between the cella and the peristyle at the ends is impossible as construction. The pteron, with its cornice about 100 above the ground, is far too elevated for so delicate a work. (Fig. 35.) 3. Fergusson, in the same year, published a study of the monument, in the main following Newton. He put a basis for the chariot group as Cockerell had done, and after the analogy of the Lion Tomb at Cnidus, but introduced many errors and fancies of his own. 4. In 1888 Mr J. E. Goodchild, who had been an assistant to Cockerell, issued a pamphlet, which attempted to show that the discoveries were compatible with Cockerell's " small plan " t Watkiss Lloyd made a slight amendment to the scheme, and this is embodied in the fine coloured drawing- of Cockerell's restoration shown at the Museum. This drawing was made by Mr F. Pepys Cockerell.
 * " Ant. of Athens," vol. iv.