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TOMBS IN PAPIILAGONIA. 205 lighted by a narrow window ; the diminutive apartment seen behind it is the grave properly so called. Both have roofs with sloping sides ; but the slightly projecting band, which in the main chamber serves as point of junction between the vertical walls FIG. 145. Iskelib. Tomb III. Transverse section under porch through c D. Hirschfeld, Plate VI. FIG. 146. Iskelib. Tomb III. Longitudinal section through A B. Ibid. and the superincumbent ceiling, is not repeated in the smaller tomb (Fig. 146). As in many Phrygian tombs, we find here also a pillar in the middle of the tympan, which is an exact copy of the wooden post of a loft. Like it, it is composed of a thin plinth or FIG. 147. Iskelib. Imitation of a wooden loft. Ibid. FIG. 148. Iskelib. Tomb III. Sec- lion through E F. External face of mortuary couch, [bid. shoe, three square posts, and the whole is topped by a capping upon which rest the cross-beams (Fig. 147). Again, the ceiling of the further room forms a canopy over the anterior face of the grave, divided into four panels like a wood partition, and as unlike stone forms as can well be imagined (Fig. 148). This applies to the shelf, 60 c. wide, upon which the body was laid ; its outer rim is rounded off, whilst the two semi-rolls at the back stand out from the rocky wall. All these details show care and finish. The fourth tomb, whose base is about three metres above the