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Tomb 11. «5 designs (Fig. 285). The dowels which occur in the adjoining sketches will suffice to show that the mode of assemblage, whether in Tomb 1. or in Tomb 11., was precisely similar. The transverse sections of Fig. 285 show the pieces in question in the order followed by us, from top to base. The lower portion of the last block has lost its facing, whose salience doubt- less coincided with that of the contiguous stone immediately Fig. 285.— Tomb II. Dowels. below. The stones were clean cut, set close to each other, edge against edge, and secured at the back by clamps. Without prejudging the question of a capital which has dis- appeared, or a surface decoration — enhanced perhaps by painting — completely obliterated, we can at any rate restore, with a high degree of probability, the bands which composed the pent- house and the relieving space {Fig. 286). In this manner we obtain a partial, though incomplete restoration, which goes far to prove that this facade, though less magnificent than that of the