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Note on the Inscription of the Mausoleum Frieze

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

F. W. Hasluck
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The inscription (Fig. 1) on block 1010 of the Amazon Frieze of the Mausoleum has hitherto been regarded as illegible. The letters are ·03 m. high and carefully cut in three lines across the shield of one of the combatants, but have been (perhaps wilfully) defaced. The block in question is one of the twelve acquired by the exertions of Stratford de Redcliffe in 1846 from the Knights Hospitallers' Castle of S. Peter at Budrum. Of the twelve blocks three were built into the seaward wall of the castle with the arms and inscription (1506) of the Captain Constantius de Opertis: the remaining nine, of which No. 1010 is one, were placed inside Newton's ‘third gate’ five in the seaward tower and four immediately opposite.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , 1909 , pp. 366 - 367
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1909

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References

1 B. M. Catal. Gr. Sculp, ii. 103; illustrated in E. Dalton's series of engravings (1751–2), Devereux, W. M., Views on the shores of the Mediterranean (1847), Pl. XVI.Google Scholar, Mon. delľ Inst. v. Pl. XIX. (iii.)

2 Newton in Class. Mus. v. 185.

3 Allan, J. H., Pictorial Tour, p. 39Google Scholar.

4 Views in the Ottoman Empire, chiefly Caramania (1803), engraved again with the figures altered in Ionian Antiquities Vol. ii. Supp. Pl. II. and signed Myers (sic) delint: Devereux remarks that the drawing is exceedingly unreliable, having probably been made up of sketches taken from a boat.

5 Bosio ii. 538.

6 ibid. 563.

7 Waldener himself figures as Vualderic in Fontanus Bell. Rhod. (1527) ii.). Heinrich Schlegelholt is called Essone di Slegleolts by Bosio and some English Knight is disguised by the same author under the extraordinary name of Sequipunt.

8 Fontanus (loc. cit.) describes him as Germanus eques armorum et navigandi peritus urbisque imperialis Hagenau summus praefectus ac Commendator qui Bhodiis in pace jus diccbat. Goussancourt (ii. 538) says he died in 1533. The supposed, Waldener arms in the Castellania at Rhodes given by Berg are really, as Belabre has recognised, those of ľIsle Adam: the building dates from the reign of G. M. ďAmboise (1503–12), before Waldener became Castellan.

9 Bosio ii. 147 (1428), 148 (1443), but cf. 481 (1504), where the new works at S. Peter's are visited by the Prior of Aquitaine.

10 A list of Captains of S. Peter is given in Newton's, Halicarnassus ii. 2. 665, Note 9Google Scholar, but many names can be added from Bosio.