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27G TOPOGRAPHY OP HALICAKNASSTJS.
of the Castle, and for large ships in the road
outside.
A little to the south of the Temple of Mars is a
row of Doric columns, thirty in number, the shafts of
which are half buried in the soil within about 6' of
their capitals.™ These columns still support their
entablature, and are evidently part of a portico or
stoa, as the architrave has not been adapted to re-
ceive a crossbeam. Digging down to the base of the
shafts, we found on their north side coarse tessellated
pavement of the Eoman period. Immediately to the
south of this row of columns-are a number of vaults
built of rubble and concrete, which are partially
visible just above the present surface of the field.
At the foot of the eastern wall of the Mausoleum
was found the inscription, Appendix No. 3, which
records the building of a stoa dedicated to Apollo
and King Ptolemy, probably Philadelphus or Euer-
getes, by the people of Halicarnassus; and, a little
further to the east, I observed, built into a house,
a corner-stone, on which are inscribed the com-
mencing words of the first two lines of the dedi-
cation of this stoa :—
'AttoWwvi kal Ba.<r(iXeiHTo\e[ta.l<i>)
O S»7/'os "')'' oT(odi').
Prom the discovery of these inscriptions so close
together, it .may be inferred that the edifice to
which they relate stood somewhere in the neigh-
bourhood, and, as the place where they were found
m Engraved, Choiseul Gcmffier, Voyage Pittoresqiie, i. Pll.
99—101, where these columns are erroneously described as ruins
of the Temple of Mars.
of the Castle, and for large ships in the road
outside.
A little to the south of the Temple of Mars is a
row of Doric columns, thirty in number, the shafts of
which are half buried in the soil within about 6' of
their capitals.™ These columns still support their
entablature, and are evidently part of a portico or
stoa, as the architrave has not been adapted to re-
ceive a crossbeam. Digging down to the base of the
shafts, we found on their north side coarse tessellated
pavement of the Eoman period. Immediately to the
south of this row of columns-are a number of vaults
built of rubble and concrete, which are partially
visible just above the present surface of the field.
At the foot of the eastern wall of the Mausoleum
was found the inscription, Appendix No. 3, which
records the building of a stoa dedicated to Apollo
and King Ptolemy, probably Philadelphus or Euer-
getes, by the people of Halicarnassus; and, a little
further to the east, I observed, built into a house,
a corner-stone, on which are inscribed the com-
mencing words of the first two lines of the dedi-
cation of this stoa :—
'AttoWwvi kal Ba.<r(iXeiHTo\e[ta.l<i>)
O S»7/'os "')'' oT(odi').
Prom the discovery of these inscriptions so close
together, it .may be inferred that the edifice to
which they relate stood somewhere in the neigh-
bourhood, and, as the place where they were found
m Engraved, Choiseul Gcmffier, Voyage Pittoresqiie, i. Pll.
99—101, where these columns are erroneously described as ruins
of the Temple of Mars.