The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art . t whom these statues represented, it is, ofcourse, impossible to assert; in the absence, however, of a moreprobable idea, I would suggest the following:—Mausolus mightoccupy the central pedestal on one side, with his father andmother and two brothers, making a group of five. Artemismight occupy a corresponding position on the other flank, withArtemisia and captive Rhodes on one side, and Ada the sisterof Artemisia, and Artemisia the daughter of Lygdamis, on theother; while the eight remaining pedestals, four in eit
The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art . t whom these statues represented, it is, ofcourse, impossible to assert; in the absence, however, of a moreprobable idea, I would suggest the following:—Mausolus mightoccupy the central pedestal on one side, with his father andmother and two brothers, making a group of five. Artemismight occupy a corresponding position on the other flank, withArtemisia and captive Rhodes on one side, and Ada the sisterof Artemisia, and Artemisia the daughter of Lygdamis, on theother; while the eight remaining pedestals, four in either front,would support statues of the eight cities which were united o 2 18G MAUSOLEUM AT HALICARNASSUS. together by Mausolus into Halicarnassus.* Parallel instancesare exhibited in the trophy of Artemisias conquest of Rhodes,which represented Artemisia and captive Rhodes,! ^^^ in themonument to the memory of Homer, built by Ptolemy Philo-pater, who placed round the statue of the poet representationsof the different cities which had claimed the honour of givinghim Since writing the above, I find there is the trunk of a femaledraped statue in the British Museum, the height of which,curiously enough, exactly corresponds with those in my was brought from Halicarnassus with the bas-reliefs, and is * Strabo, p. 611. In the same manner, the cities Hyperea, Anthea, andPosidonias, which were afterwards united into Troezen, were represented on thetomb of Pittheus, as abeady noted, (page 184, note.) Figures of cities are alsorepresented on the pedestal of the statue of Tiberius, found at Puteoli. t ViTR., Arc//., ii. 8. X MmA^., Far. Hist., xiii. 22. MAUSOLEUM AT HALICAKNASSUS. 187 considered in the Bullettino delVInst. Archeol. di Rorna^ (1832,page 168,) as having formed part of the decoration of the mau-soleum. Though some doubts may possibly be entertainedwhether it be of so early a date, it is nevertheless a beautifullyexecuted statue; and the delicacy \vith whi
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