Newton, Charles T. [Hrsg.]; Pullan, Richard P. [Hrsg.]: A history of discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchidae (Band 2, Teil 1) (London, 1862)

RESTORATION OF THE MAUSOLEUM. 167

the order, with regard to the base of the pyramid,
satisfactorily determined.

The heights and diameters of the various drums
of columns were carefully registered by Lieut. Smith
as each drum was dug up, and it was by compa-
rison of these various dimensions that the height of
the column was gained. The other members of
the order I measured on the site.

I was thus enabled to construct the order with
tolerable accuracy while at Budrum, the whole being
finally revised and compared with the remains now
in the British Museum.

I may here mention, that all that portion of the
building which was above the podium was built of
white marble, and that, probably for the sake
of economizing labour and material, the enriched
mouldings are all worked on detached pieces which
were let into ledges cut on the upper edges of the
fascias which they were intended to ornament.
- The lower stone of the architrave was easily iden-
tified by two fascias measuring respectively 9f" and
8|", with a sunken panel on the soffit. This panel was
51" wide, and f" deep, and finished square without
ornament. Of this stone were discovered several
fragments, one of which was fractured at one end;
the other end, which had rested upon the capital,
showed a square joint (Plate XXVI. fig. 1). On
the back or inner' face, which was hammer-
dressed, were two ledges, or steps; the upper ledge
5f" deep and 5-^" wide, the lower, 5" deep and 4/
wide (figg. 2, 3).