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

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states that it stood on the right of the secret port.
The entire disappearance of this royal edifice may
be easily accounted for, when we consider its
proximity to a part of the city wall which was
probably destroyed by Alexander the Great, toge-
ther with the arsenal. As Yitruvius tells us that
tile, faced with stucco, and decorated with Procon-
nesian marble, was employed in the construction
of this palace, it is to be inferred that its ruins
would be of a less massive character than those
of Greek edifices generally. It is not improbable
that they may have been used in the formation of
the glacis of the castle.

Of the temple of Venus and Mercury, which
adorned the western horn, no vestige remains on
the shore opposite to the Peninsula. The most
conspicuous feature on this side of the bay is the
steep rock of Caplan Calessy,1' on the summit of
which is a platform included in the line of
the walls, where Captain Spratt has with much
probability placed the fortress of Salmacis. It
is to be presumed that this fortress was near
the fountain of the same name, which again,
according to Vitruvius, was close to the temple
of Venus and Mercury; but, after a careful and
minute survey of the ground, I have been unable
to discover any fountain corresponding with the
position assigned to that of Salmacis. Captain
Spratt places the temple of Venus and Mercury
on a platform a little to the north-east of the rock

h This rock is shown in the Upper View, Plate XXXIV.

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