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

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pying the centre of one of the sides of the room.
These are marked in the Plan with the consecutive
Eos. 2—5.

The subjects of these pictures were animals. The
compartment on the west (No. 2 of the Plan) re-
presented a group of three animals ; on the right a
greyhound gallops towards a goat, which advances
at the same pace towards him from the opposite
direction ; behind the goat, on the left, is another
smaller hound pursuing.

The opposite compartment on the eastern side
of the room (No. 4) represented a lion and a bull
rushing at each other; between them was a tree.
The subject of the north side was a lion pursuing a
goat from left to right (No. 3), and on the south
(No. 5) was a panther chasing a hind.

. The four angles of this room, marked No. 1 in
the Plan, were severally filled up with a mseander of
the plait commonly known as the guilloche pattern ;
the colours employed in which were blue, orange,
red, and black on a white ground.

Each of the four pictures was set in. a frame of
indented pattern, black and white; outside of which
ran a border of guilloche plait; outside this again,
a broad white margin, studded with stars, marked
the boundary of the pavement on the west, north,
and south sides. On the east side of the room was
a border of sis dolphins arranged in pairs. These
dolphins are blue, the fins red, the outlines black
on a white ground : between each pair is a flower.

The sunk square in the centre of this room was
surrounded by a broad plait of red, orange, white,