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OP THE MAUSOLEUM. Ill
on this side, two of which appear in the lower
view, Plate XI. Removing these I proceeded to
dig northward as far as the road marked in Plate II.
The result of these operations was as follows :—
Immediately behind the spot where I found the
great horse, and which is marked by a breach in
the garden wall,11 was a house, described in my official
Reports as the Imaum's house. (See Plate IV.) On
removing this, I found under the foundations part
of the body of a draped female figure; and, built
into the chimney, a female head with a veil falling
from the back of the neck. The surface of this
head is nearly destroyed by fire, but enough
remains to show that it was quite equal in style
to the heads previously discovered nearer the
north wall. To the west of tbe Imaum's field was
a house belonging to a Turk called Mehemet. To
the north of the peribolus wall in this field -were
the colossal female head and the body of a ram,
described ante, pp. 104-5, two bent arms from a
female statue, part of a colossal male leg, the head
of a lion broken off at the shoulder, some portions
of figures from the frieze, and several lions' heads
from the cornice. The soil in this field was deeper
than in the ground adjacent to the east, where I
found the colossal horse and pyramid stones, and
the sculptures lay near the surface. It is probable,
therefore, that, when they fell, there was a greater
accumulation of alluvial soil here than in the
Imaum's field further to the east. Hence the sculp-
tures have not been so completely protected by
1 Shown in Plate XI., Lower View.
on this side, two of which appear in the lower
view, Plate XI. Removing these I proceeded to
dig northward as far as the road marked in Plate II.
The result of these operations was as follows :—
Immediately behind the spot where I found the
great horse, and which is marked by a breach in
the garden wall,11 was a house, described in my official
Reports as the Imaum's house. (See Plate IV.) On
removing this, I found under the foundations part
of the body of a draped female figure; and, built
into the chimney, a female head with a veil falling
from the back of the neck. The surface of this
head is nearly destroyed by fire, but enough
remains to show that it was quite equal in style
to the heads previously discovered nearer the
north wall. To the west of tbe Imaum's field was
a house belonging to a Turk called Mehemet. To
the north of the peribolus wall in this field -were
the colossal female head and the body of a ram,
described ante, pp. 104-5, two bent arms from a
female statue, part of a colossal male leg, the head
of a lion broken off at the shoulder, some portions
of figures from the frieze, and several lions' heads
from the cornice. The soil in this field was deeper
than in the ground adjacent to the east, where I
found the colossal horse and pyramid stones, and
the sculptures lay near the surface. It is probable,
therefore, that, when they fell, there was a greater
accumulation of alluvial soil here than in the
Imaum's field further to the east. Hence the sculp-
tures have not been so completely protected by
1 Shown in Plate XI., Lower View.