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

THE MAUSOLEUM OP HAEICAENASSOS. 71

lost treatise by the architects Satyros and Pythios, or
possibly from a work by Mucianus (E. Sellers, Elder Pliny's
Chapters on Art, p. lxxxviii.). Pliny's account, howevei^
of the architectural arrangement is little more than a
series of dimensions, with respect to most of which there
are serious differences of reading. If we regard the
disputed dimensions as indeterminate, we learn from
Pliny that the Mausoleum was a rectangular building,
with the long sides on the north and south. The shorter
ends ho calls ' fronts,' a term which suggests the presence
of pediments or some such distinction. It was surrounded
by a colonnade, and was adorned by sculpture on all four
sides. The colonnade was surmounted by a pyramid of
twenty-four steps, which was crowned by a four-horse
chariot. Pliny also states that the pyramid contracted like
the top of a turning-post in the circus, and ' equals' (or ' d id
equal') ' the height below,' or else ' the lower' (pyramid?).
The main controversy has turned on this passage. Reading
aequavit, 'did equal,' Mr. Oldfield has lately suggested

est, quoniara pariter caelavere Mausoleum, sepulchrum hoc est ab uxore
Artemisia factum Mausolo Cariae regulo, qui obiit olympiadis CVII auno
secundo (351 B.C.). opus id ut esset inter septem miracula hi maxime
fecere artifices, patet ab austro et septentrione centenos sexagenos ternos
pedes, brevius a frontibus, toto circumitu pedes CCCGXXXX, attollitur
in altitudinem XXXV cubitis, cingitur columnis XXXVI. pteron
vocavere circumitum. ab oriente caelavit Scopas, a septentrione Bryaxis,
a meridie Timotheus, ab occasu Leochares, priusque quam peragereut
regiua obit, non tamen recesserunt nisi absoluto iam, id gloriae ipsorum
artisque monimentum iudicantes, hodieque certant manus. accessit et
quintus artifex. namque supra pteron pyramis altitudiueni inferiorem
aequat, viginti quattuor gradibus in metae cacumen se contrahens. in
summo est quadriga marmorea quam fecit Pythis. haec adiecta CXXXX
pedum altitudine totum opus includit.

Alternative readings: omit centenos, for which there is no MS.
authority. For CCCGXXXX read CCCCXI. For XXXV (Detlefsen)
read XXV. with MSS. Omit circumitum. For altitudine/n (an emenda-
tion) read altitudine. For aequat read aequavit.