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OP TUB MAUSOLEUM. SI
These slabs were thirteen in number, and in some-
what indifferent condition, in consequence of the
bad usage and exposure to weather which they had
undergone.
Very soon after their arrival in England, I drew up,
with the assistance of my friend Mr. 0. It. Cockerell,
B.A., a memoirkon these sculptures, in which I en-
deavoured to determine the site of the Mausoleum,
its structure and general proportions, and the rela-
tion of the reliefs recently brought to England to
the whole design, basing my views on such evidence
as could be gathered either from ancient authors or
from existing vestigia, and tracing the history of
this famous monument from antiquity to the period
of its final destruction in the 16th century.
The examination of these questions led me to the
conviction that for their complete elucidation more
evidence was necessary, and that this evidence must
be sought for, not in books, but at Budrum itself;
that the site whence these marbles were obtained
had not as yet been sufficiently explored.
In studying the topography of Halicarnassus, I
derived much assistance from the chart made by
Captains Graves and Brock for the Ilydrographical
Survey;1 but, failing to identify by the aid of
this document certain principal features of the
city as described by ancient authors, I submitted
my difficulties to the late Sir Erancis Beaufort,
then at the head of the Ilydrographical Depart-
k Classical Museum, v. pp. 170—201.
1 Admiralty Chart, No. 1606. By the kindness of Sir Francis
Beaufort, I was permitted to make use of the plate of this chart
for my memoir.
These slabs were thirteen in number, and in some-
what indifferent condition, in consequence of the
bad usage and exposure to weather which they had
undergone.
Very soon after their arrival in England, I drew up,
with the assistance of my friend Mr. 0. It. Cockerell,
B.A., a memoirkon these sculptures, in which I en-
deavoured to determine the site of the Mausoleum,
its structure and general proportions, and the rela-
tion of the reliefs recently brought to England to
the whole design, basing my views on such evidence
as could be gathered either from ancient authors or
from existing vestigia, and tracing the history of
this famous monument from antiquity to the period
of its final destruction in the 16th century.
The examination of these questions led me to the
conviction that for their complete elucidation more
evidence was necessary, and that this evidence must
be sought for, not in books, but at Budrum itself;
that the site whence these marbles were obtained
had not as yet been sufficiently explored.
In studying the topography of Halicarnassus, I
derived much assistance from the chart made by
Captains Graves and Brock for the Ilydrographical
Survey;1 but, failing to identify by the aid of
this document certain principal features of the
city as described by ancient authors, I submitted
my difficulties to the late Sir Erancis Beaufort,
then at the head of the Ilydrographical Depart-
k Classical Museum, v. pp. 170—201.
1 Admiralty Chart, No. 1606. By the kindness of Sir Francis
Beaufort, I was permitted to make use of the plate of this chart
for my memoir.