The mausoleum had a total height of one hundred and forty feet, and in general appearance combined orientalism in tomb-structure with the perfections of Grecian architectural grace and elegance. The tomb was contained within a rectangular substructure. Above was an Ionic peristyle temple with nine columns on each side and eleven at the ends. The frieze was elaborately carved and decorated, and the roof, which was pyramidal in form, gave the oriental cast to the entire building. At the apex of the roof was a colossal marble quadriga, in which a statue of the deceased king Mausolus appeared. It is said that in the sculptures and carvings of the different sides the respective artists strove to rival each other, and that although queen Artemesia died before the tomb was finished the four artists were so interested and absorbed in their work that they determined to complete it at their own risk. Up to the twelfth century after the Christian era this grand tomb stood in a fairly good state of preservation, but soon after fell to pieces, and was used from that time as a quarry by the Knights of St. John, from which they took stone for the castles they built on the site of the old Greek Acropolis. Later still much of the marble was taken to repair their fortifications, and it is even said to make lime, showing to what ignominious uses the very greatest of architectural glories may finally come. However, some of the carvings have been redeemed from the fortification walls and unearthed from other places in Budrun, the modern Halicarnassus, to find a final resting place, let it be hoped, in the British Museum. These rescued pieces of marble, of which there are perhaps sufficient to reconstruct a quarter of the whole frieze, though they are not continuous, are pronounced by competent judges to be specimens of the work of the different artists, but there is no means of determining which of them, if any, came from the chisel of Scopas. The temple of Athene Alea at Tegea in Arcadia, often a sanctuary for fugitives from Sparta, was an architectural creation of Scopas, which it would appear belonged to him exclusively. Of all the temples in the Peloponnesus this is said by Pausanias to have been the largest as well as the most magnificent. That observant traveller, however, must have been carried away somewhat by his enthusiasm over its architectural attractions in ascribing to it such great size, as its dimensions were not more than one hundred and sixty-four by seventy feet, being very much smaller than other Grecian temples.