The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art (1860)
Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896, Wood, J. E, Davies, Benjamin Rees · London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts · leaf 183
which never existed, and of which Pliny does not say oneword, and by giving to the tomb itself a mesquin proportion, inopposition to all authority, which represents it as one of themost gigantic constructions of antiquity. Influenced by theseconsiderations, M. Texier has felt obliged to dissent… … 50 60 10 SO 90 100 MAUSOLEUM AT HALICAENASSUS. 161 By the foregoing notice, it vnR appear that M. Texierproposes a tumulus, girt about Avith a wall, and adorned withthirty-six columns, the total circumference of which shall be411 feet. The height of the pyramid, or cone, would naturallybe equal to…
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