Note 31 — INTRODUCTION.
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In 1846, permission was given by the Porte to the then British Ambassador, Sir Stratford Canning, afterwards Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe (1786-1880), to remove twelve slabs of the frieze of the Mausoleum from Halicarnassos. These sculptures, long known to travellers,31 were taken from the walls of the castle of Budrum, and presented by the Ambassador to the British Museum.