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 THE TOMB OF MAUSOLUS. 59 the angle volutes at Ephesus were exactly similar. The inner angle of the Mausoleum capital was recessed, as a separate fragment shows, so to allow room for the bringing of two volutes together at right angles. At Priene the two volutes of the inner angle were complete. There was not room enough for this on the Mausoleum capitals where the outer revolution of the volute was lost at the mitre. Even to get this much the length of the side rolls had to be reduced on the angle capitals. See Fig. 45, which shows the relative sizes of the two capitals. Figs. 46 and 47 show the mitring of the volutes against the inner angle. Fig. 48 is a restoration of the abacus at this point. Fig. 50 shows the ordinary capital. As to the height of the column at the Mausoleum, we are told that " Mr Penrose, after a most careful dis- cussion of the dimen- sions of twenty-six drums measured by Mr Newton at Hali- carnassus, and by those which are at the Museum, came to the conclusion, from the entasis, that the pillars were 8J diameters in height, and consequently within a small fraction of 28 feet 6 inches in height."* The diameter here accepted is Pullan's wrong value of 3, 5.35. With a more correct value, we get about eight diameters. The memorandum spoken of above is a sheet (in MS. 31980, by Lieutenant Smith?), giving the sizes of all the drums discovered. On it a series of six drums, which agreed most nearly with one another as they diminished Fig. 46.— Mitred Volutes of Angle Capitals.
 * "Antiq. of Ionia," vol. iv., p. 18.