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 54 THE TOMB OF MAUSOLUS. however, would appear to have been exactly lOO Greek feet, for lo X 9,9i = 97, 8i, and adding two half columns, 3,6|, we get loi, 3 English. As said above, attempts have been made to reconcile Pliny's dimensions in all kinds of ways. Mr Pullan supposed that the 63 feet applied to the cella, and the 411 feet to the peristyle. Mr Oldfield's plan was broken into the form of a cross with very short arms, which gave narrow fronts. This variety we may call the "broken type." Mr Stevenson suggested an inner building small and high, and an outer enclosing building low and large. If I must put forward a possible reading, I would say that as the measure about the exterior was 440 feet, 63 feet was the interior length of the cella, obviously ! Professor Gardner suggests that cxiii. should be read for Ixiii., and this Figs. 41 and 42. — Rejected Plans. would do very well for the top step of the platform. But none of these reconciliations are so simple in the supposition of that easiest thing a mistake. As Furtwangler says on another subject, " It seems to me better to set aside Pliny's information than to try to combine it with the known facts." In the parallel case of Ephesus, Pliny's dimensions have had to be abandoned. For the Mausoleum he gives the measure of the long sides as 63 feet, while his estimate of the total measure round about is either 411 or 440 feet, according to different texts. Which of these last shall be accepted as right? It would not matter much which it was, except that another writer says that it was 1 340 ! However, this last could be made to apply to an outer court, although it is rather like measuring a field for the size of a haystack, and other reconcilers think it is in mistake for 440.