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 T?IE TOMB OF MAUSOLUS. 65 There appear to be several fragments of the Mausoleum built into the walls of the Turkish fortress of Budrum. I cannot find that they have ever been described. Some interesting observations on the peristyle by Mr Marshall were published in the Builders' Journal, August 1 899. He pointed out that the top bed of the angle capital was countersunk, and that half the top of another capital was similar, while another has no sinking, and suggested that corre- sponding Beatings must have been left on the architrave blocks, which thus at the angles set into the caps and resisted displacement. He also gives a good sketch of the ceiling over the peristyle. It is probable that the columns all leaned inwards, at least one in the hundred following the inclination of the cella wall. Sculpture and Colour. The principal sculptures could not have been in pediments, as has been shown, yet Dr Six is probably right in grouping them after the model of the Sidon Sarcophagus. The de- scription calls for an equal dis- tribution on all four sides. Adler's disposition of groups aeainst the basement seems to best suit the evidence. The great chariot group which stood on the summit is particularly noble ; it might be nominated for a place amongst the most " universal " pieces of sculpture in the world, for that master of medisevalism, Viollet le Due, has rightly picked out the figure of Mausolus as having a character comparable with the best mediaeval sculptures. I only know one other figure which has the same " feeling," the slen- der draped girl's figure from Priene, which I should like to think of as by the same artist, Pythios. It might have come from Rheims Fig. 54.- -Enlarged Details of Bases.