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On the Topography of Halicarnassus. 357 among them by Mr Morritt. He correctly stated " that these beautiful marbles were probably taken from the celebrated Mausoleum." (MS. Journal.) In all probability the battles (Ama- zonomachia) in relief, which were sculptured inside the chamber, as described by Guichard, were smaller ; these were broken and knocked to pieces by the Knights. One figure, however, has possibly been preserved, which I take to be that of the little Amazon on horseback, which was found by Captain Spratt at Budrum, and presented by him to the British Museum. This marble bas-relief is nearly half the size of the larger slabs, and therefore more in proportion to the internal chamber of the Mausoleum : in design, it is almost identical with that sculptured on the large slab, numbered 9. The "Budrum Marbles" have been ably commented upon by Mr W. B. Hamilton, and by Mr Bonomi in two papers, published a few years ago, in the Trans. R. S. Lit. (Vol. ii. N. S. p. 251, and p. 308.) On recently look- ing at these sculptures, now in the Phigalian Gallery of the British Museum, I noticed an inscription in three lines upon an oval shield of a Greek warrior contending with an Amazon on horseback in the slab numbered 3, and thought that the last letters of the first line seemed to be noiEl T. But on subse- quently reading Mr Newton's Memoir (Class. Mus. v. p. 185), I learnt that he had observed some inscribed letters, which he says are Roman, upon "the shield of owe of the Amazons," though he does not give the number of the piece of the frieze. Whether indeed this be the same inscription as what I noticed, appears doubtful; for the description, if intended for it, is inaccurate. I must however state that the day, on which I lately saw these inscribed three lines, was a dark November afternoon, and conse- quently it was impossible to make out clearly the decayed letters, or to pronounce whether they are Grecian, or Roman. Further, I observed on another shield (a round one) of a Greek warrior, in the slab numbered 11, some inscribed marks, which to me resembled angular Greek letters, or parts of letters, but as they are greatly worn, I only mention them with much uncertainty. p. 352, note (o). Mr W. J. Hamilton relates (Asia Minor, Vol. ii p. 31) finding a large sarcophagus near the ruins of the Doric portico, a little South of the platform or stylobate, which he supposes may have been the basement of the Mausoleum: can this have been the sarcophagus described by Guichard? if