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

OF THE MAUSOLEUM. 101

the west side, I found part of a colossal draped
figure, broken off at the waist and the hips.

It will be seen, by reference to the Plan, that the
line of cutting on the north side of the Quadrangle
is not continuous, but that, at a few feet from the
north-west angle, a break occurs, extending for 59',
after which the line of cutting is resumed. In this
interval were three square piers, and a fourth pier
occurred in the space between the staircase wall
and the north-Avest corner of the Quadrangle. These
piers were all built of squared blocks of native rock.
Their courses were not properly bonded, and from
the want of solidity in the masonry, it is evident
that these piers formed no part of the structure of the
Mausoleum. The three piers on the north had their
southern faces flush with the north side of the peri-
bolus. All the four were carried to the same height,
and this level, as will be seen by the sections, is
nearly uniform with the native rock at the foot of
the north wall of the peribolus, at the head of the
stair, and all round the west, south, and east sides,
where no break occurred in cutting the lines of the
quadrangle.

This level must have nearly corresponded with
that of the original surface of the platform, which,
for reasons which I shall presently state, must, I
think, have been raised a little above the rock.

The irregular excavation in which the north piers
were placed, was filled up with the same white soil
which we found over the stair on the west. Be-
hind the piers were several drums of circular