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are led away captive. These, I think it probable, were spies,
or perhaps peasants who had been made to point ont a
weakly defended part of the city, for which we have prece-
dents at the taking of Sardis and other sieges. They are at
all events being led away prisoners from the city, while the
Ionians are hastening stealthily, and led on by signs from
their leaders, toward the walls of the town. On approaching
they crouch down and take off their shoes ; a ladder is placed
against the gate-tower, and held with ropes by two men
stationed beneath. The Ionian soldiers are seen ascending
cautiously and with bare feet, and one of them has arrived
at the top of the gates. The architecture of the city again
shows a Lycian fortification, and from the panelled windows
are seen several heads of the surprised and unarmed people.
The north side represents a varied and confused scene, pro-
bably the end of a battle after the sally from the city: one
group, including a wounded hero led away by a youth, is
extremely interesting and beautiful; several figures are seen
pointing, as if giving commands, and the combatants are
turned and engaged in different directions,—not advancing
in order, as seen upon the other sides. One figure is carry-
ing a stool or throne, and another an umbrella inclined over
his shoulder. This may represent the removal of the em-
blems of Persian royalty into the conquered city. The fourth
and last side facing the west shows the conquered city, at
the gate of which Harpagus is seated upon a throne, and
canopied by the royal umbrella, as before described.

For many suggestions in explanation of the next portion
of the structure, I am indebted to a learned and ingenious
paper read before the Royal Society of Antiquaries in Lon-
don, in February 1848, by my friend Mr. Benjamin Gribson
of Eome. He tells us that ten cities of Ionia supplied Har-
pagus with troops. Here we have between the columns
ten statues, apparently of the same female figure,—perhaps
Venus, the popular deity of Ionia; each of these statues is