Whether it is a Tomb at all, or whether the restoration can be depended
upon, will not be known till the second part of Mr. Newton’s text
is published. The plates in his work fail, in this and every other
instance, in giving the remotest idea of the remains _in situ_; and the
architectural plates do not distinguish between what was found and what
is restored. Still it must be near enough to the truth to be allowed
to suggest what was the meaning of the “metæ cacumen,” or the pedestal
on which the sculpture was placed on the top of the Pyramid, which is
the key to the whole mystery of the Mausoleum. It may also probably be
quoted as suggesting the mode in which the Pyramid was placed on the
order.
2. A Tomb is found at Dugga in Africa, which is singularly suggestive
of the appearance of the Mausoleum, with only such difference as the
very much smaller scale would necessitate.
[Illustration: 2.—TOMB AT DUGGA. (From a Drawing by Mr. Catherwood.)]
3. A third, at Souma near Constantina, is published by Ravoisé in
elevation, and in perspective by Mr. Falkener in his Museum of
Classical Antiquities, No. 2, p. 172. This consists first of a solid
podium or basement, with steps. Over this is a storey with a doorway or
opening on each face, and above this a pteron of eight Doric columns,
disposed three on each face, but without any cella or chamber, the
space being too small to admit of any. There is, in this instance, no
pyramid of steps on the top, but a small pediment on each face.
4. At page 174 of the same volume there is a still more suggestive
design restored by Mr. Falkener from some remains he found at Denzili
in Phrygia. The base of this monument was entirely concealed by
rubbish; but above ground were found six square steles or piers,
arranged three and three, with a figure sculptured in bas-relief on
each face. Above the entablature was a pyramid of steps supporting a
couchant figure of a lion.
5. There is a well known Tomb at Mylassa, published by the Dilettante
Society in their volume on ‘Ionia;’ which, though of late Roman times,
is evidently copied from the Mausoleum.
[Illustration: 3.—TOMB AT MYLASSA.]
6. There are several other smaller examples, which, if they do not
suggest much, are at least interesting, as showing how widely the fame
of this building was extended, and how generally it was imitated, not
only in Asia but in Africa.
7. There is also the Trophy Monument discovered by Sir Charles Fellows
at Xanthus, which, though hardly bearing directly on the subject, is
still sufficiently near it in design to suggest several peculiarities
which, without its authority, we might hesitate to adopt.
4. _Rationes._
The last mode of investigation which has been mentioned as open to us,
yields results which, though not so obvious at first sight, are quite
as satisfactory as those obtained from any of the previously mentioned
sources of information.
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