44 THE TOMB OF MAUSOLUS. inches, or, as has been said, the plinth would have been one-half the columniation.* There is a final proof of the dimension obtained for the columniation. According to Pliny the ends of the struc- ture were shorter than the sides. It is manifest that this means that they had one or twocolumniations less. Now, the difference between io8 feet and 127 feet, the size of the foundation, almost 2 ^ I — 4 — y. -2-^ o -^-^^ Fig. 33. — Dimensions of Columniation. exactly equals two bays of 9, 9. It may now further be stated that the flanks were two bays longer tlian the front. The 36 columns mentioned by Pliny can only be arranged in the two simple ways described above — either with 9 columns on the fronts and 1 1 on the flanks, or, less obviously, in two rows, the outside ranks being 6 columns on the front and 7 on
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