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 THE TOMB OF MAUSOLUS. 6l (24 to i), I find that the Mausoleum shaft followed the same rule, the lower half was very straight, but not upright, the upper part curves swiftly so that the vertex would be 10 or 12 feet above the capital. (Fig. 49.) It has long been discussed whether the sculptured frieze belonged to the order, and Furtwangler and others have applied it to the podium. Following the analogy of Priene and Ephesus, I have shown that there could have been no frieze Fig. 50. — Capital reduced from Royal College of Art Survey. of the order. This is proved so far as the Mausoleum is con- cerned by the way in which the cross beams are notched down for the full depth into the epistyle. If there had been a frieze the cross beams of course would have rested on the epistyle. Combining our entablature of architrave, egg and tongue course, dentil course, egg and tongue course, corona and cymatium we get a depth of S, 11. Now at Priene the depth of entablature was three-fifths of a columniation, the arrangement proposed for