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THE FRIEZE OF THE MAUSOLEUM.
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5. Fragment of hoof of hindleg broken off at the back,
on a hammer-dressed base.
6. Elliptical marble, longest diameter 2 feet 1 inch,
height 9Jr inches. At each end of the ellipse is a cramp-hole
into which a cramp has been fixed with lead, wbich still
remains on one side. Several of these elliptical stones
were found which, when fitted together, tapered gradually,
the one here described being the largest. They may have
formed the support under the chariot.
SCULPTURES IN RELIEF.
The works in relief found on the site of the Mausoleum
consist of portions of three distinct friezes, viz., the frieze
of the Order, the Centaur frieze, and the Chariot frieze, and
a series of reliefs in panels. Of these, the most important
is the frieze of the Order.
THE FRIEZE OF THE ORDER.
Of this frieze the British Museum possesses seventeen
slabs, of which twelve were removed from tbe Castle of
St. Peter in 1846, and four more were discovered in
1856-57 on the site of the Mausoleum. One other slab of
this frieze, No. 1022, was formerly in the Villa di Negro at
Genoa, to which place it was probably transported from
Budrum by one of the Knights of St. John, some time in
the fifteenth or early in the sixteenth century, and was
purchased from the Marchese Serra in 1865. The entire
length of these slabs is 85 feet 9 inches, the height 2 feet
llf inches; they all represent combats of Greeks and
Amazons. The slabs do not follow in regular sequence,
but are taken from various parts of the series; nor have
we any evidence as to the sides of the building which
95
5. Fragment of hoof of hindleg broken off at the back,
on a hammer-dressed base.
6. Elliptical marble, longest diameter 2 feet 1 inch,
height 9Jr inches. At each end of the ellipse is a cramp-hole
into which a cramp has been fixed with lead, wbich still
remains on one side. Several of these elliptical stones
were found which, when fitted together, tapered gradually,
the one here described being the largest. They may have
formed the support under the chariot.
SCULPTURES IN RELIEF.
The works in relief found on the site of the Mausoleum
consist of portions of three distinct friezes, viz., the frieze
of the Order, the Centaur frieze, and the Chariot frieze, and
a series of reliefs in panels. Of these, the most important
is the frieze of the Order.
THE FRIEZE OF THE ORDER.
Of this frieze the British Museum possesses seventeen
slabs, of which twelve were removed from tbe Castle of
St. Peter in 1846, and four more were discovered in
1856-57 on the site of the Mausoleum. One other slab of
this frieze, No. 1022, was formerly in the Villa di Negro at
Genoa, to which place it was probably transported from
Budrum by one of the Knights of St. John, some time in
the fifteenth or early in the sixteenth century, and was
purchased from the Marchese Serra in 1865. The entire
length of these slabs is 85 feet 9 inches, the height 2 feet
llf inches; they all represent combats of Greeks and
Amazons. The slabs do not follow in regular sequence,
but are taken from various parts of the series; nor have
we any evidence as to the sides of the building which