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EXCAVATIONS OX SITE OF MAUSOLEUM. 131
the Quadrangle, the rocky platform suddenly termi-
nates in a vertical cutting, running east and west.
This cutting was faced by a wall of isodomous
masonry running parallel to it. The southern face
of this wall was composed of square blocks beau-
tifully jointed, but roughly dressed.0 The space
between this face and the cutting was filled with
rubble. The thickness of the wall was 1' 10" ; its
height 7', distributed over eight courses of masonry.
It rose within 2' of the rocky platform behind it,
and from its construction and position seems to
have been built as a terrace-wall, to conceal the
irregular and unsightly face of the vertical cutting.
As the southern or exterior side of the wall was
evidently built so as to be seen, it may be presumed
that its line marked a change of level in the plat-
form of the peribolus. This wall was traced for
about SO'. It terminates, as may be seen by refer-
ence to Plate III., against the side of an oblong
chamber cut in the native rock, where it intersects
the line of a gallery, as will be more particularly
described hereafter. We were unable to explore
its course further to the east, not having possession
of the ground; but, if the wall was continued
beyond this point, its lowest course must have been
about 6' higher than in the rest of the wall. I
have already noticed that, on the east side of the
peribolus, at the distance of 9' from the east side
of the Quadrangle, is a wail precisely similar in the
character of its masonry to the one just described.
On looking at the direction of these eastern and
c A view of tliis wall is given in Plato XII.
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the Quadrangle, the rocky platform suddenly termi-
nates in a vertical cutting, running east and west.
This cutting was faced by a wall of isodomous
masonry running parallel to it. The southern face
of this wall was composed of square blocks beau-
tifully jointed, but roughly dressed.0 The space
between this face and the cutting was filled with
rubble. The thickness of the wall was 1' 10" ; its
height 7', distributed over eight courses of masonry.
It rose within 2' of the rocky platform behind it,
and from its construction and position seems to
have been built as a terrace-wall, to conceal the
irregular and unsightly face of the vertical cutting.
As the southern or exterior side of the wall was
evidently built so as to be seen, it may be presumed
that its line marked a change of level in the plat-
form of the peribolus. This wall was traced for
about SO'. It terminates, as may be seen by refer-
ence to Plate III., against the side of an oblong
chamber cut in the native rock, where it intersects
the line of a gallery, as will be more particularly
described hereafter. We were unable to explore
its course further to the east, not having possession
of the ground; but, if the wall was continued
beyond this point, its lowest course must have been
about 6' higher than in the rest of the wall. I
have already noticed that, on the east side of the
peribolus, at the distance of 9' from the east side
of the Quadrangle, is a wail precisely similar in the
character of its masonry to the one just described.
On looking at the direction of these eastern and
c A view of tliis wall is given in Plato XII.
K 2