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CHAPTER VII.
SUMMARY OF THE ARGUMENTS IN FAVOUR OF
MR. FULLAN's RESTORATION.
Three principal points on which the restoration depends, assumed
. at the outset. Credit of Pliny's text, how far affected by
"various readings. Sillig's edition. Discrepancies between Pliny's
sum total and subordinate numbers, how explained. Pliny's,
account probably taken from his notes of the treatise by Satyros
and Pythios. Objections to Lieutenant Smith's restoration con-
sidered .seriatim. Meaning of Pliny's comparison of the pyramid
. to a meta. Pyramid to be regarded as a pedestal for the chariot
group. Height of basement borne out by analogy of other
monuments. This part probably decorated with friezes. Pyra-
mid supported by a dome, on the principle of the Egyptian arch.
Analogous domical structures in antiquity. Arrangement of
pteroma analogous to that of the Ionic monument at Xanthus.
Authority for position of the Jions. Internal chambers probably
like those in the Koul Oba. Correspondence of the restoration
with passages in ancient authors relating to the Mausoleum.
Imitations of this type in other monuments.
A full and detailed account of the discoveries on
the site of the Mausoleum having heen given in
the preceding pages; the facts disclosed by these
discoveries having been duly weighed, and the
' conclusions, which, as it is thought, may be fairly
deduced from this new evidence, having been sub-
mitted to the reader in the positive form of a
restoration, it may be as well here to recapitulate
CHAPTER VII.
SUMMARY OF THE ARGUMENTS IN FAVOUR OF
MR. FULLAN's RESTORATION.
Three principal points on which the restoration depends, assumed
. at the outset. Credit of Pliny's text, how far affected by
"various readings. Sillig's edition. Discrepancies between Pliny's
sum total and subordinate numbers, how explained. Pliny's,
account probably taken from his notes of the treatise by Satyros
and Pythios. Objections to Lieutenant Smith's restoration con-
sidered .seriatim. Meaning of Pliny's comparison of the pyramid
. to a meta. Pyramid to be regarded as a pedestal for the chariot
group. Height of basement borne out by analogy of other
monuments. This part probably decorated with friezes. Pyra-
mid supported by a dome, on the principle of the Egyptian arch.
Analogous domical structures in antiquity. Arrangement of
pteroma analogous to that of the Ionic monument at Xanthus.
Authority for position of the Jions. Internal chambers probably
like those in the Koul Oba. Correspondence of the restoration
with passages in ancient authors relating to the Mausoleum.
Imitations of this type in other monuments.
A full and detailed account of the discoveries on
the site of the Mausoleum having heen given in
the preceding pages; the facts disclosed by these
discoveries having been duly weighed, and the
' conclusions, which, as it is thought, may be fairly
deduced from this new evidence, having been sub-
mitted to the reader in the positive form of a
restoration, it may be as well here to recapitulate