Newton, Charles T. [Hrsg.]; Pullan, Richard P. [Hrsg.]: A history of discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchidae (Band 2, Teil 1) (London, 1862)

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dowels were fixed, corresponding with bronze sockets
let into the marble slabs. The accompanying cut
shows one of these dowels within a bronze collar,
which was fixed in the great stone with lead.

Height, 3fa in.; diam. 2J1,,- in.

Doubtless it was intended by the architect that,
on lowering this stone, the dowels should drop
out of their collars into the sockets below; but,
whether through accident or fraud, they appear to
have remained in the collars instead of descending
into the holes to which they had been fitted. This
may be seen on examining the ends of these
dowels, which are united all round the edge to the
collars by a strong patina. Perhaps the workmen
employed on this operation purposely contrived
that it should be thus incomplete, with the same
motive as actuated the builder of the treasury of the

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