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. . 121

Quadrangle and the north peribolus Avail. This soil,
composed of rubble, intermixed with large blocks
of stone, was all apparently formed of the decom-
posed rock of the platform. Beyond the second
wall on the east, the vertical section of this lower
soil presented a curious series of zigzag strata, such
as would be formed by casting in rubble and soil
from opposite directions.

In these strata were veins of chippings of green
stone. The occurrence of these veins seems to me
a proof that the platform was artificially prolonged
in an eastern direction from the place where the
native rock failed, and that this prolongation took
place at the time of the building of the Mausoleum.
It might then have been accomplished in a very
simple and economical manner by shooting into
the deeper parts the rubble as it accumulated in
levelling the site and dressing the stones for the
Mausoleum.

It is specially to be observed that these zig-zag
strata rose fully to the level of the rocky margin
west of the trench, and such an artificial stratifica-
tion proves that the wall was intentionally concealed
at the time of the making of the platform, in the
level of which it consequently does not mark a
change.

I am therefore inclined to think that this wall
has no connection with the plan of the Mausoleum,
and that it is anterior to it. What its purpose may
have been, it is difficult to conjecture.