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CHAPTER IV.

HISTORY OE THE DISCOVERY OF THE MAUSOLEUM.

Arrival ©f tlie Gorgon at Budrum, November, 185G. Discovery
of the site of the Mausoleum, January 1, 1857. Evidence by
which that position was fixed. Progress of the Excavation.
Equestrian Figure. Western staircase. Alabastron, with name
of Xerxes. Stone, at entrance to Tomb. Plan of the Founda-
tions. Correspondence of the dimensions with those given by
Pliny. The Basement. Manner in which the great stone was
fastened. Discovery of four slabs of Frieze. Piers on north
side of the Quadrangle. Northern Peribolus wall. Discovery
of statues and steps of Pyramid behind this wall. Form of the
ground on this side. Masonry of Peribolus wall. Discovery of
eastern Peribolus wall. Imaum's house. Angle capital. Marble
Pyxis. Wall to the north of Peribolus wall. Marbles near
Mehemet Ali's house.

The Gorgon arrived at Buclrum at the beginning
of November, 1856. "VVe immediately commenced
several excavations, an account of which will be
given in a later part of this work; but it was
not till the 1st of January, 1857, that we were
enabled to begin digging on the true site of the
Mausoleum.

The evidence by which I was enabled to make this
discovery was as follows:—The situation of this
monument is marked with great exactness by Yi-
trnvius in a passage already cited,1 as being in the
centre of the bend formed by the harbour of Buclrurn,

n Ante, p. 39.