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EXCAVATIONS OX SITE OP MAUSOLEUM. 125
more than a centui'y earlier than the date of the
Mausoleum.
There can hardly he a doubt that this terra-cotta
and the dagger belong to the soros, at the sides of
which they were lying, and the discovery of these
sepulchral objects at so great a depth, and bearing
the mark of such high antiquity, corroborated me
in an opinion which I had already advanced, that
the quarry was used as a cemetery in times ante-
cedent to the building of the Mausoleum on its
site. That such was the case will be shown more
particularly when the excavations south of the
Quadrangle are described..
The fact that the platform was artificially pro-
longed to the east of the line where the native
rock fails, is shown by the occurrence of the strata
of- chippings of marble and green stone, not less
where these run in zigzag veins, than in the part
nearer the peribolus wall, where they form a solid
horizontal surfaced the amalgamation of which, in
the course of centuries, must have been caused by
some natural process in the soil, analogous to that
by which a peculiar kind of recent rock is formed
along the sea-beach on the coast of Asia Minor.0
■ '' On the Acropolis at Athens are several platforms, partly arti-
ficial. " The layers of the made ground are very evident close to
the Parthenon on the south side. They are composed of chips of
stone, the lowest being of the red marble of the rock of the Acro-
polis, the second of the white marble of Pentelicus, and the
upper layer of the magnesian limestone of the hills near the
Pmeus."—Murray's Handbook of Greece, 1854, pp. 153-4.
c Beaufort's Caramania, p. 182. Spratt and Forbes, Lycia,
p. 188. The latter observes that this artificial beach is formed by
carbonate of lime draining through the shingle.
more than a centui'y earlier than the date of the
Mausoleum.
There can hardly he a doubt that this terra-cotta
and the dagger belong to the soros, at the sides of
which they were lying, and the discovery of these
sepulchral objects at so great a depth, and bearing
the mark of such high antiquity, corroborated me
in an opinion which I had already advanced, that
the quarry was used as a cemetery in times ante-
cedent to the building of the Mausoleum on its
site. That such was the case will be shown more
particularly when the excavations south of the
Quadrangle are described..
The fact that the platform was artificially pro-
longed to the east of the line where the native
rock fails, is shown by the occurrence of the strata
of- chippings of marble and green stone, not less
where these run in zigzag veins, than in the part
nearer the peribolus wall, where they form a solid
horizontal surfaced the amalgamation of which, in
the course of centuries, must have been caused by
some natural process in the soil, analogous to that
by which a peculiar kind of recent rock is formed
along the sea-beach on the coast of Asia Minor.0
■ '' On the Acropolis at Athens are several platforms, partly arti-
ficial. " The layers of the made ground are very evident close to
the Parthenon on the south side. They are composed of chips of
stone, the lowest being of the red marble of the rock of the Acro-
polis, the second of the white marble of Pentelicus, and the
upper layer of the magnesian limestone of the hills near the
Pmeus."—Murray's Handbook of Greece, 1854, pp. 153-4.
c Beaufort's Caramania, p. 182. Spratt and Forbes, Lycia,
p. 188. The latter observes that this artificial beach is formed by
carbonate of lime draining through the shingle.