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S4 HISTORY OE THE DISCOVERY
colossal lions in Parian or Pentelic marble, and in
the finest style of sculpture, inserted in the walls in
different places (see the cut on the preceding page).
I had no hesitation in at once recognizing these as
part of the Mausoleum, and I contemplated them
with that interest which it was natural to feel on
seeing for the first time sculptures in the round,
which could, on historical evidence, be proved to
belong to the school of Scopas and his illustrious
fellow-labourers.
I lost no time in communicating my discovery to
Lord Stratford de Bedcliffe, then Her Majesty's
Ambassador at the Porte, and his lordship, not
forgetting the claims of Archaeology even amid the
momentous distractions of the Russian war, most
kindly forwarded my views to the utmost of his
power, applying to the Turkish Government for
a firman authorizing me to excavate, and obtaining
for me the temporary service of H.M.S. Medusa, by
which I was enabled to visit Budrum again during
the spring of 1856.
On this occasion I spent six weeks there, during
which time I was enabled to explore the Turkish
quarter minutely. Not having as yet received the
firman for which Lord Stratford had applied, and
having only at my disposal a small sum liberally
advanced by his lordship in furtherance of my
researches, I contented myself, during this visit,
with making some small experimental excavations,
of which an account will be given in a later part
of this work.
I left Budrum in April, 1856, and in the autumn
of the same year took advantage of a visit to
colossal lions in Parian or Pentelic marble, and in
the finest style of sculpture, inserted in the walls in
different places (see the cut on the preceding page).
I had no hesitation in at once recognizing these as
part of the Mausoleum, and I contemplated them
with that interest which it was natural to feel on
seeing for the first time sculptures in the round,
which could, on historical evidence, be proved to
belong to the school of Scopas and his illustrious
fellow-labourers.
I lost no time in communicating my discovery to
Lord Stratford de Bedcliffe, then Her Majesty's
Ambassador at the Porte, and his lordship, not
forgetting the claims of Archaeology even amid the
momentous distractions of the Russian war, most
kindly forwarded my views to the utmost of his
power, applying to the Turkish Government for
a firman authorizing me to excavate, and obtaining
for me the temporary service of H.M.S. Medusa, by
which I was enabled to visit Budrum again during
the spring of 1856.
On this occasion I spent six weeks there, during
which time I was enabled to explore the Turkish
quarter minutely. Not having as yet received the
firman for which Lord Stratford had applied, and
having only at my disposal a small sum liberally
advanced by his lordship in furtherance of my
researches, I contented myself, during this visit,
with making some small experimental excavations,
of which an account will be given in a later part
of this work.
I left Budrum in April, 1856, and in the autumn
of the same year took advantage of a visit to