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them are sculptured, in very low relief, banquets, luinting scenes, and dancers, forming a 

 frieze round each Cist; these reliefs are well preserved, and are interestino; specimens of 

 Etruscan art. 



Sculptures from the Mausoleum. — In the course of the year Mr. Biliotti, British Vice- 

 Consul at Rhodes, and M. Salzuiann, have been employed by the Trustees to resume the 

 excavations on the site of the Mausoleum, the complete exploration of wiiich had been 

 previously impossible, on account of the refusal of the owners of some of the site to part with 

 their houses. 



The whole of ihe Peribolus has now been cleared and carefully dug over, and the giound 

 lying below the Peribolus on the East and South has also been explored. 



In the course of these excavations a number of fragments of ihe sculptures of the Mauso- 

 leum have been discovered. • 



The most remarkable of these fragments are: — 



(l.) The body of a Greek warrior which has been fitted to its place on the slab of 

 friezi, discovered by Mr. Newton in situ, in 1867, and engraved in his History of Discoveries 

 at Halicarnassus, PI. ix., upper view. 



(2.) The lower part of a right leg, which has been fitted to a seated colossal figure pre- 

 viously discovered. 



(3.) A horse's foot attached to a base, and seven other fragments from one or more ot 

 the colossal horses fiom the chariot group which crowned the apex of the pyramid. 



(4.) Part of the body of a female charioteer from the chariot frieze, which has been fitted 

 on to a fragment previously discovered. 



(5.) Part of a helmet belonging to a head from the frieze of the Mausoleum, which had 

 been previously discovered. 



(6.) Twenty-four fragments from the head and forepart of a colossal lion, of which the 

 hinder half had been previously discovered. 



(7.) A colossal female head much defaced. 



(8.) The upper part of the figure of a Greek warrior from the frieze of the Order. 



(9.) The body of a dying Amazon from the same frieze. These two last fragments are of 

 great beauty. 



In the southein part of the Peribolus were found the following Greek inscripl;ions : — 



(1.) A base of blue marble on which are six lines in elegiac metre, apparently relating to 

 the worship of Bacchus. 



(2.) A dedication to Aphrodite by the Agoranomi or magistrates of the Agora ; this in- 

 scription was found on ground inmiediately overlooking the site assigned to the Agora by 

 Vitruvius. 



(3.) A deciee of the Augustan age, in which mention is made of the Consul M. Plautius 

 Sylvanus, who held office, B.C. 2. 



(4.) A dedication to Arsinoe, probably, the Queen of Ptolemy Philadelphus. 



A slab from the frieze of the Mausoleum, purchased at Genoa from the Marchese Serra. 



This slab represents a battle beiween Greeks and Amazons, and is from the frieze of the 

 Order; it is in better condition than any of the slabs brought from Budrum, and was 

 probably taken to Genoa by one of the Knights of St. John, who served in the Castle at 

 Budrum, in the 15th century. It was formerly in the Villa di Negri, at Genoa, and is known 

 to have been in the possession of the Bajano family there rather more than a century ago. 

 Its history cannot be traced further back than about the year 1750. 



Sculptures from Bargylia, in Caria. 



In the course of his stay at Budrum, Mr. Biliotti discovered on a promontory, near the 

 ancient Bargyha, the remains of a Doric tomb, similar in character to the Lion tomb near 

 Cnidus. In these ruins were found fragments of a colossal group in white marble, in which 

 Scylla is represented, under her usual type, as a female tigure, terminating below the waist 

 in marine monsters; representations of Scylla are very rare in ancient sculpture. 



A small Greek vase, of the kind called Aryballos, found near Corinth ; purchased of Mr. 

 Merlin, British Vice-Consul at Athens. 



This vase has a number of names inscribed on it in archaic characters, and is one of the 

 earliest known specimens on which Greek writing occurs. Engraved in the Annali of the 

 Roman Institute di Corrispondenza Archeoiogica, xxxiv. Tav. d'agg. a. 



A bronze figure, 1 foot 9f inches high, representing Venus stooping as if to adjust her 

 sandal. The subject is one of which several copies in .bronze and marble are extant. They 

 are all probably taken from some celebrated original. This bronze is said to have been dis- 



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