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know that during the third and fourth centuries the
Greek Christians generally were iconoclasts. In the
spring of 1846 upwards of thirty heads of statues were
discovered in a well near Smyrna, doubtless thrown
there from the same religious motives which caused the
mutilation of the statues in this Monument. The hatred
seems to have been limited to the heads of statues; the
limbs are not injured, nor were the heads of the figures
in bas-relief ever destroyed. There is one head of a
boy in the group on the apex of the east pediment
which has escaped, possibly from its high position upon
the Monument. The incidents which occurred whilst
1 was engaged in watching with care the progress of
these excavations, have afforded me the means of rea-
soning and drawing the conclusions offered in the early
part of these pages.
THE END.
know that during the third and fourth centuries the
Greek Christians generally were iconoclasts. In the
spring of 1846 upwards of thirty heads of statues were
discovered in a well near Smyrna, doubtless thrown
there from the same religious motives which caused the
mutilation of the statues in this Monument. The hatred
seems to have been limited to the heads of statues; the
limbs are not injured, nor were the heads of the figures
in bas-relief ever destroyed. There is one head of a
boy in the group on the apex of the east pediment
which has escaped, possibly from its high position upon
the Monument. The incidents which occurred whilst
1 was engaged in watching with care the progress of
these excavations, have afforded me the means of rea-
soning and drawing the conclusions offered in the early
part of these pages.
THE END.