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CATALOGUE OF SCTJLPTUKE.
large square chamber, elaborately adorned with an archi-
tectural order, coloured marbles and reliefs, all of which
the finders admired and destroyed. A low door led to
a second chamber which contained a sarcophagus of white
marble. The evening retreat had already sounded, and
the finders left the tomb for the night. Next morn-
ing they found that the tomb had been pillaged during
their absence by unknown persons, believed to have been
a band of corsairs.
If we accept, as we are entitled to do, the main lines of
this account (but cf. C. Torr, Class. Bev., i., p. 79), it is
evident that the portion then extant was a pyramidal
structure, which covered the sepulchral chamber. This
must have been the lower part of the building, and not
the pyramid that is known to have surmounted the order.
It is possible that it was no more than a stylobate com-
bined with a flight of steps on each side; but the story
has recently been taken by Mr. Oldfield as evidence for a
lower pyramid.
At some unknown time several slabs of the principal
frieze and a number of the lions were inserted for
ornament in the walls of the castle of St. Peter. One of
the lions is associated with a shield, dated 1506 (Newton,
Hist. Disc, p. 83).
After the taking of Budrum by the Turks, the sculp-
tures in the castle were viewed from time to time by
travellers with great difficulty (cf. a story told by
Fellows, Travels, p. 431). They were visited by
Thevenot in 1656, and he mentions both the reliefs and
lions, but does not seem to have been aware of the
connexion with the Mausoleum (Thevenot, Relation d'un
voyage fait au Levant (1664), i., p. 210). Sketches were
made by Eichard Dalton, who visited Budrum with Lord
Oharlemont in Nov., 1749. He attributed the sculptures to
the Mausoleum, and identified the subject {Remarks on xii
CATALOGUE OF SCTJLPTUKE.
large square chamber, elaborately adorned with an archi-
tectural order, coloured marbles and reliefs, all of which
the finders admired and destroyed. A low door led to
a second chamber which contained a sarcophagus of white
marble. The evening retreat had already sounded, and
the finders left the tomb for the night. Next morn-
ing they found that the tomb had been pillaged during
their absence by unknown persons, believed to have been
a band of corsairs.
If we accept, as we are entitled to do, the main lines of
this account (but cf. C. Torr, Class. Bev., i., p. 79), it is
evident that the portion then extant was a pyramidal
structure, which covered the sepulchral chamber. This
must have been the lower part of the building, and not
the pyramid that is known to have surmounted the order.
It is possible that it was no more than a stylobate com-
bined with a flight of steps on each side; but the story
has recently been taken by Mr. Oldfield as evidence for a
lower pyramid.
At some unknown time several slabs of the principal
frieze and a number of the lions were inserted for
ornament in the walls of the castle of St. Peter. One of
the lions is associated with a shield, dated 1506 (Newton,
Hist. Disc, p. 83).
After the taking of Budrum by the Turks, the sculp-
tures in the castle were viewed from time to time by
travellers with great difficulty (cf. a story told by
Fellows, Travels, p. 431). They were visited by
Thevenot in 1656, and he mentions both the reliefs and
lions, but does not seem to have been aware of the
connexion with the Mausoleum (Thevenot, Relation d'un
voyage fait au Levant (1664), i., p. 210). Sketches were
made by Eichard Dalton, who visited Budrum with Lord
Oharlemont in Nov., 1749. He attributed the sculptures to
the Mausoleum, and identified the subject {Remarks on xii