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

172 • RESTORATION OF THE MAUSOLEUM.

as it may be inferred from the language of Pliny
that the pyramid and quadriga equalled the order
in height, there conld have been nothing intervening
between the upper member of the order and the
first step of the pyramid.

, Having arranged the various stones of the enta-
blature according to their proper projections, which
are in most cases indicated by the cramp-marks, and
having applied the profile of it, so that it shall join
the lower steps of the pyramid on the line men-
tioned in the last paragraph, we find that the centre of
the architrave stone, which is the same as that of the
axis of the columns, falls 2' 8-|" within the line of
the base of the pyramid.

In order to fix the exact position of the columns,
we will suppose a line to be carried all round the
building in the centre of the architrave, which has
just been found; if then, beginning at one of the
corners, we divide the circuit into thirty-six parts,
we shall find that there will be nine columns on the
front, and eleven on the flanks, and that they will
be exactly ten feet from centre to centre.

In the passage from Pliny which has been
already quoted, the dimension 63' is given, as the
length, from east to west, of some portion of the
tomb, which, if we regard the context alone, we
might suppose to be the Pteron; but, if we take
into consideration the size of the base of the pyra-
mid, as ascertained by the discovery of the steps
(see ante, p. 165), the dimension 63' cannot apply to
the length of the peristyle, but must represent the.
length of the cella, regarded in this passage as the
main feature of the building.