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FUNEREAL ARCHITECTURE. have been an important family vault. It was decorated by a porch, but the whole of the richly ornamented fa$ade is much defaced (Fig. 77, 32 in map). It is entirely rock-cut; of the two columns which upheld the entablature, one has disappeared without leaving a trace, and of the other the upper part alone remains in position, hanging from the architrave. Right and left of the twin pillars appear two salient members which terminated in small frontals. Were they supported by colonnettes, so as to render them proportional to their surroundings ? Had the chisel carved an ornamental device or inscription upon it ? In the worn state of the stone surface, nothing can be affirmed either way. The entablature is formed by an architraved cornice, the profiles of FlG.. 78. Plan. Journal, 1882, Plate FIG. 79. Transverse section under porch, IXXVI. A. through line A, u. Journal, 1882, Plate XXVII. B. which are repeated on the sloping sides of the very pointed pediment crowning the whole. The details about frontal and entablature should be noticed. In the middle of the tympan appears an indistinct object. 1 Was it a Gorgon's head, or rather a simple wreath ? It is difficult to say. Behind the porch is the entrance to the tomb, a bay with sloping jambs (Fig. 78). Within the porch, flanking the arch which appears over the lintel, are two semi-rampant lions face to face (Fig. 79) ; a device repeated on the end wall of the chamber opposite the entrance (Fig. 80). The decorative scheme had variety. Thus, on the inner side of the wall in which the door is pierced, were two oblong panels which, to judge from their shape, contained human forms, but so hopelessly obliterated that no explorer has cared to 1 Some Phrygian Monuments, p. 262, Plates XXVI., XXVII.