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)

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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.

described by Messrs. Newton and Pullan in A History of
Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus, and Branchidae, 1862.

In 1865 further excavations were conducted on the
site by Messrs. Biliotti and Salzmann on behalf of the
Trustees of the British Museum. Those portions of the
site which Mr. Newton had been unable to acquire in
1856 were dug over, and numerous fragments were found,
which helped to complete sculptures previously discovered,
but no new light was thrown on the problem of the
restoration of the building.

In the same year a slab of the frieze, which had been
in a palace at Genoa since the middle of the last century,
was purchased from the Marchese Serra (see below,
No. 1022).

In 1876 two fragments of the frieze were obtained
from a Turkish house in the town of Bhodes, whither
they had been transported in the time of the Knights.

In 1879 H.I.M. Sultan Abdul Hamed presented a
fragment of the frieze, representing an Amazon (see
below, No. 1017), which was formerly in the Imperial
Museum at Constantinople.

The Architecture of the Mausoleum.

The discoveries made by excavation supply data which
must be embodied in any restoration of the monument,
but the results were not sufficiently definite to make a
restoration possible, except with the aid of the literary
authorities. The problem, how best to combine these two
sources of information, has been much discussed.

The principal passage describing the Mausoleum, on
which any attempt to restore it must be based, is that of
Pliny,* who probably obtained his information from the

* Pliny, N.H., XXXVI. 30 (ed. Detlefsen). Scopas habuit aemulos eadem
aetate Bryaxim et Timotheum et Leocharen, de quibus simul dicendum