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 THE TOMB OF MAUSOLUS. 63 this distance, "where there is a slight rise as if for a bed." As this gives a projection much greater than in other examples, I would suggest that it should be pushed back 4 inches or so, the dressing having been so wide in order to relieve the bed mould from the weight, and this, I see, is how Pullan has shown it. On the top of the gutter "a line is marked "1,10 back from its nosing. Newton says that this line marked the commencement of the pyramid. In the Museum Catalogue it is called a "weather line which is supposed to indicate the position of the lowest step of Fig. 52. — Museum Restoration of the Entablature. the pyramid." This entirely impossible arrangement would give no back to the gutter. It brings the weight of the pyramid not only on to a 4-inch gutter stone, but about 3, O in front of the architrave, resting on the thin corona of the cornice. There are several yards of the gutter set up in the Museum. (Fig. 53-) It is divided into stones 42 inches long, with a lion's head spout in the centre of each. As before mentioned, remnants of two angles exist ; both show that the palmette carving came up to the mitre, and one gives just enough evidence to show that the first head was