Smith, Arthur H. [Hrsg.]; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Hrsg.]: Catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Band 2) (London, 1900)

THE MAUSOLEUM OP HALICARNASSOS. 69

Hist, designs of Raphael and .... antiquities of Greece and
Egypt, illustrated by ... Mr. Bolton's Drawings, 1752, p. 29;
Bassorelievos discovered in Garia, drawn by K. Dalton [no
date; said to have been issued in 1791 (Sainte-Croix)]).
They were also drawn by L. Mayer, the draughtsman
of Sir E. Ainslie ( Views in the Ottoman Empire, 1803, pi. 18 ;
Antiquities of Ionia, Pt. ii., 1797, Suppl. pi. 2); and by
Captain Devereux ( Views on the Shores of the Mediterranean,
1847), who also describes the preliminary negotiations
for the marbles.

In 1846 Lord Stratford de Bedcliffo, then Sir Stratford
Canning, British Ambassador at the Porte, obtained a
Firman from the Sultan, authorizing the removal of the
reliefs from the castle, and presented them to the British
Museum.

Attention was thus drawn to the subject of the
Mausoleum. Mr. C. T. Newton argued, in a memoir on
the Mausoleum (Class. Mus., v., p. 171), that the Mausoleum
occupied a site which had been indicated by T. L.
Donaldson (Stuart's Athens, 2nd ed., iv., p. 55), as marked
by ' many broken shafts of columns, volutes, and other
ornaments of a superb Ionic edifice.' A few years later
Mr. Newton, who was then acting as Vice-Consul at
Mytilene, was empowered to remove certain lions which
he had observed built into the walls of the castle
at Budrum, to search for the site of the Mausoleum,
and to carry on excavations at Budrum on behalf of the
Foreign Office.

Excavations were begun in November, 1856, and the
site indicated by Donaldson was srjeedily proved to be
that of the Mausoleum. A rocky platform was laid bare,
and a great quantity of architecture and sculpture was
discovered, including parts of the frieze and some of the
lions, which established the origin of the sculptures
obtained from the castle. The excavations were