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OF THE MAUSOLEUM. 105
Of this only three-quarters of the face has heen
preserved, having heen split off from the rest. It
is rather larger than life size; the portion of
the face which has been preserved is in the finest
condition. The countenance is exceedingly beau-
tiful, and may, like the head of Mausolus, be a
portrait. Close to it I found the lower part of an
archaic head which I should ascribe to a much
earlier school than that of Scopas.
This head had no neck, but issued from a base,
the original form of which cannot now be. ascer-
tained, on account of its mutilated condition.
9. The body of a colossal ram, from the shoulder
to the tail, found at the distance of about three feet
from the head No. 5. This ram is erroneously
described in my Report to the Foreign Office' as a
leopard. The diagonal lines channelled on the surface
represent the fleece.
The marble slabs found intermixed with these
sculptures were ascertained upon examination to be
steps, and to present certain peculiarities of form and
dimensions, which led Lieutenant Smith and myself
to consider them as the steps of the pyramid. The
reasons for this opinion are fully given by Lieute-
nant Smith in a Report"1 which will be considered
in a later part of this work. In the sides of many
of these slabs copper cramps were still fixed,
and were generally slightly bent, as if they had
been wrenched from their places. One of them,
1 Papers respecting the excavations at Bud rum, 1858, p. 32.
111 Ibid. pp. 16—21.
Of this only three-quarters of the face has heen
preserved, having heen split off from the rest. It
is rather larger than life size; the portion of
the face which has been preserved is in the finest
condition. The countenance is exceedingly beau-
tiful, and may, like the head of Mausolus, be a
portrait. Close to it I found the lower part of an
archaic head which I should ascribe to a much
earlier school than that of Scopas.
This head had no neck, but issued from a base,
the original form of which cannot now be. ascer-
tained, on account of its mutilated condition.
9. The body of a colossal ram, from the shoulder
to the tail, found at the distance of about three feet
from the head No. 5. This ram is erroneously
described in my Report to the Foreign Office' as a
leopard. The diagonal lines channelled on the surface
represent the fleece.
The marble slabs found intermixed with these
sculptures were ascertained upon examination to be
steps, and to present certain peculiarities of form and
dimensions, which led Lieutenant Smith and myself
to consider them as the steps of the pyramid. The
reasons for this opinion are fully given by Lieute-
nant Smith in a Report"1 which will be considered
in a later part of this work. In the sides of many
of these slabs copper cramps were still fixed,
and were generally slightly bent, as if they had
been wrenched from their places. One of them,
1 Papers respecting the excavations at Bud rum, 1858, p. 32.
111 Ibid. pp. 16—21.