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The Pediments of the Maussolleum
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
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Some years ago I ventured on a reconstruction of the Maussolleum, that was based on the principle of not overlooking the sculptured fragments in a monument of which the great renown was due, according to Vitruvius, to the work of the sculptors who were employed in its decoration: quorum artis eminens excellentia coëgit ad septem spectaculorum eius operis pervenire famam. That it was never published is owing to the uncertainty I felt about the measures of the remaining architectural fragments, which I had not the means to control.
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1 Vitruv. vii. 1. 12.
2 Das Mausoleum der Halikarnass, Berlin, 1900.
3 This animal has grown rather too large in my reconstruction by a mistake of the draughtsman.
4 Halicaruassus, Cnidus, and Branchidae, ii. p. 233.
5 l. c. 231.
6 l. c. 232.
7 l. c. 234.
8 Nat. Hist. xxxv. 137.
9 Furtwängler, , Intermezzi, p. 36Google Scholar, d.
10 Mélanges Perrot, p. 317.
11 Jahrb. iii. (1888), p. 189.
12 Alex. 40.
13 B.C.H. xxi. (1897), p. 598; Perdrizet, Paul, J.H.S. xix. (1899), p. 273Google Scholar.
14 M. Perdrizet must surely be wrong in finding a replica of the venatio in Mr. Evans' intaglio. The words of Plutarch: 
exclude a fallen king.
15 Archaeologia, liv. (1895), p. 273.
16 When speaking of feet I mean Greek feet of 0·328 m., not English.
17 The statues, if not in the quadriga, may have either stood in the cella, or in the east pediment or even perhaps on the long sides against the attica, above each column a statue. I doubt very much whether the lions could have stood there, as Adler makes them, rather than on the peribolos wall.
18 Röm. Mitth. vi. (1891), 138.
19 Das Tropaion von Adamklissi und provincial-Römische Kunst, Abhandlungen der k. bayr. Akademie der Wiss. I. Cl. xxii. Bd. iii. Abt. München, 1903, Pl. I.
20 Jahresh. vi. (1903), p. 249, Fig. 132.
21 xxxvii. 27.
22 Forcellini, i.v. meta.
23 Heberdey, und Wilberg, , Jahresh. iii. (1900), 117Google Scholar.
24 Baumeister, , i.v. Triumph- und Ehrenbogen, p. 1872Google Scholar.
25 The chariot race may of course have occupied the long sides, and the fronts may have held some other subject that would be better adapted, as the preparations for the race and the crowning of the victor. Still the archaistic relief, with Apollo, Artemis, and Leto, in the Villa Albani, the Berlin Museum and the Louvre (Schreiber, die Hellenistischen Reliefbilder, xxxiv, xxxv, and xxxvi) have a chariot race as well on the front as on the side of the temple seen in the background.
26 I remind my readers that the sectio aurea divides a length in such a way that the quadrate of the larger part is equal to the whole multiplied by the smaller. This never can be expressed in whole numbers, but is approached by the following series: 1:2 = 2 : 3 = 3 : 5 = 5 : 8 = 8 : 13 = 13 : 21 = 21 : 34 = 34 55 = 55 : 89 = 89 : 144 etc., wherein each fourth number is the sum of the preceding first and second. It is evident that figures from 3–13 are in use here, not the higher series from 34 till 144. Which shows once more that not single feet, but the standard of 10 ft. is in use here.
27 This is what the Greek author failed to see who thought he was very clever in reducing the 37½′ of the pteron into 25 cubits.
28 Mr. van Balen, who has drawn my plans for me, has indicated the stairs in the basement with dotted lines in the horizontal section through the attica.
29 iii. ii. 8.
30 Epigramm, i. 1.