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FURTHER DETAILS RESPECTING
THE TROPHY MONUMENT.
The following pages are extracted from a paper pre-
sented, with the model of the Monument, to the Trustees
of the British Museum in May 1845*.
"The stoa, or base of the Monument shown in the
view upon the pedestal of the model, the site of which
has been already described in my paper, given in to the
Museum, of the Xanthian Expedition, consisted of masses
of scaglia, the stone of the country, weighing from six to
ten tons each ; these so far remain in situ, that we ascer-
tain the precise size of the base to have been thirty-
three feet long by twenty-two feet wide : the stones of
the upper course now remaining are set-in three inches,
reducing the area to 32*6 by 21*6 ; this supplies us with
the form of the Monument and the maximum limit of
its scale. I must mention that no other base is to be
found near, and that the sculptures from their position
must all have fallen from this by one sudden convul-
sion ; the small fragments lying with the slabs from
which they have been chipped, and the bronze ties,
run-in with lead, still found in the blocks of marble.
" I must now refer to the ground-plan upon the other
* In giving these pages to the press, some slight verbal alterations
have been made, in order to render the statement more clear.
FURTHER DETAILS RESPECTING
THE TROPHY MONUMENT.
The following pages are extracted from a paper pre-
sented, with the model of the Monument, to the Trustees
of the British Museum in May 1845*.
"The stoa, or base of the Monument shown in the
view upon the pedestal of the model, the site of which
has been already described in my paper, given in to the
Museum, of the Xanthian Expedition, consisted of masses
of scaglia, the stone of the country, weighing from six to
ten tons each ; these so far remain in situ, that we ascer-
tain the precise size of the base to have been thirty-
three feet long by twenty-two feet wide : the stones of
the upper course now remaining are set-in three inches,
reducing the area to 32*6 by 21*6 ; this supplies us with
the form of the Monument and the maximum limit of
its scale. I must mention that no other base is to be
found near, and that the sculptures from their position
must all have fallen from this by one sudden convul-
sion ; the small fragments lying with the slabs from
which they have been chipped, and the bronze ties,
run-in with lead, still found in the blocks of marble.
" I must now refer to the ground-plan upon the other
* In giving these pages to the press, some slight verbal alterations
have been made, in order to render the statement more clear.