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 62 THE TOMB OF MAUSOLUS. the Mausoleum gives the same. At Priene the intercolumnia- tion was a little more open in proportion and much greater in absolute span, so that the advantage of strength is with our entablature. At the Museum there appear to be fragments of all these parts of the entablature. The dentils are blocks lO by 7 inches BASE Fig. 51. — Restored entablature reduced from Royal College of Art Survey. Faces of Architrave and Cornice are not vertical. X is doubtful. and 5 inches apart. Following Ephesus and Priene I have put an egg and tongue moulding and a cavetto beneath the corona, and this takes the place of the shallow bed mould of the Museum restoration for which there is no evidence, I believe. (See Fig. 51.) In the Museum restoration the projection which has been given to the cornice is much more than in Pullan's plates, the front of the corona being 1,9 in advance of the bed mould below. (Fig. 52.) The under side of the marble was finely dressed to