404 ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY. 



the bronze head-stall and bridle, which are believed to be the first 

 examples discovered in modern times of a method of decoration ha- 

 bitually employed by the ancients. 



The body of a horse, rearing, and ridden by a figure in Asiatic 

 costume, of which the upper part is lost. 



A colossal male statue, draped and erect, discovered in numerous 

 fragments, which, having been now rejoined, present, with the excep- 

 tion of the arms, a nearly complete figure. The head exhibits a por- 

 trait conjectured, with some probability, to be that of Mausolus. 



A colossal female figure, also draped and erect, without the head, 

 hands, and left foot, but otherwise in fair preservation, though, like 

 the preceding, discovered in fragments. 



A colossal female Torso, draped and seated, much mutilated both 

 in the extremities and surface. 



A standing lion, of which the legs only are wanting, in fine pres- 

 ervation, and exhibiting the remains of paint inside the mouth. 



Portions of at least seven other similar lions, more or less muti- 

 lated, the fore-parts of some of them having been in the Middle Ages 

 removed and built into the walls of the castle at Budrum, from which 

 they have now been obtained by the permission of the Porte. 



Four slabs, and several fragments of slabs, from a frieze of the 

 building, representing in high relief an Amazonomachia. They 

 form part of the same series as the slabs removed in 1846 from the 

 walls of the castle, and presented by Lord Stratford de Redeliffe to 

 the British Museum ; they are, however, generally in better preser- 

 vation than those slabs. 



The whole of these sculptures are executed in a style inferior 

 only to that of Phidias, and form the most valuable representation 

 yet discovered of the Greek school of the fourth century B. C. 



The architectural remains of the Mausoleum, which accompanied 

 the sculptures, include part of an architrave, a capital, base, and part 

 of the shaft of a column, all of the Ionic order, and on a large scale. 



Together with these is an extensive collection of marble fragments, 

 architectural and sculptural, evidently from the same great monu- 

 ment, but of which the connecting links are still undiscovered. 



INTERESTING EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY. 



The following account of an interesting discovery of a fragment of 

 one of the " Orations of Hyperides," by Mr. Harris, the well-known 

 Oriental scholar, is derived from the London Athenceum : 



In the winter of 1847 Mr. Harris was sitting in his boat, under the 

 shade of the well-known sycamore, on the western bank of the Nile, 

 at Thebes, ready to start for Nubia, when an Arab brought him a 

 fragment of a papyrus roll, which he ventured to open sufficiently to 

 ascertain that it was written in the Greek language, and which he 

 bought before proceeding further on his journey. Upon his return 

 to Alexandria, Avhere circumstances were more favorable to the diffi- 

 cult operation of unrolling a fragile papyrus, he discovered that he 

 possessed a fragment of the oration of Hyperides against Demos- 

 thenes, in the matter of Harpalus, and also a very small fragment of 

 another oration, the whole written in extremely legible characters, 



