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170 RESTORATION OF THE MAUSOLEUM.
number of slabs of frieze, representing an Ama-
zonomachia, were removed from the castle by
direction of Lord Stratford de Pedcliffe, and that
four more, similar in subject and scale, were dis-
covered on the site of the Mausoleum by Mr.
Xewton. There has never been any doubt that
these marbles are from the frieze of the order.
The weather-marks on the figures on this frieze,
and the boldness of its projection, show that it has
been placed on the exterior of a building. The height
2' 11-|", agrees with the general proportions of the
order. Moreover, at the bottom of the slab is a
moulding, consisting of a square fillet and reversed
cyma of slight curve, which combines with the ovolo
above the architrave, as in the Ionic temple of
Athene Polias at Prione.fl
j This unusual structure of the frieze was designed
to give support to the highly-relieved and under-
cut figures, and also to protect the joint or bed of
the architrave itself. The width of the bed of the
frieze is T 2-|"; the back of each slab has six divisions
marked upon it longitudinally, alternately smooth
and rough tooled'.
■ On the top of these slabs is an astragal (Plate
XXIX. fig. 4i). An egg and tongue moulding,
without the usual bead (Plate XXIX. fig. 3), was
found, suitable in proportions to this astragal; and
which, therefore, had 'evidently surmounted the
frieze. Above must have come the dentils, which
are common to all Asiatic examples of the Ionic
rt-".Ionian Antiquities," i. c. 2, pi. 6.
number of slabs of frieze, representing an Ama-
zonomachia, were removed from the castle by
direction of Lord Stratford de Pedcliffe, and that
four more, similar in subject and scale, were dis-
covered on the site of the Mausoleum by Mr.
Xewton. There has never been any doubt that
these marbles are from the frieze of the order.
The weather-marks on the figures on this frieze,
and the boldness of its projection, show that it has
been placed on the exterior of a building. The height
2' 11-|", agrees with the general proportions of the
order. Moreover, at the bottom of the slab is a
moulding, consisting of a square fillet and reversed
cyma of slight curve, which combines with the ovolo
above the architrave, as in the Ionic temple of
Athene Polias at Prione.fl
j This unusual structure of the frieze was designed
to give support to the highly-relieved and under-
cut figures, and also to protect the joint or bed of
the architrave itself. The width of the bed of the
frieze is T 2-|"; the back of each slab has six divisions
marked upon it longitudinally, alternately smooth
and rough tooled'.
■ On the top of these slabs is an astragal (Plate
XXIX. fig. 4i). An egg and tongue moulding,
without the usual bead (Plate XXIX. fig. 3), was
found, suitable in proportions to this astragal; and
which, therefore, had 'evidently surmounted the
frieze. Above must have come the dentils, which
are common to all Asiatic examples of the Ionic
rt-".Ionian Antiquities," i. c. 2, pi. 6.