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Description and Restoration of Tomb I. 51 slabs, which were designed to cover the expanse of the surface and conceal the wall behind. The salience of the twin stones belonging to the course comprised between the figures 5 and 6, represented by V in the section, is even more marked. These corbelled slabs are the only two existing fragments of the decor- ation ; their green colour and the polish of their surface singles them out from the rest of the structure. There are two rectangular holes below these slabs, and other two in the upper face of the abacus terminating the monolith capital (Fig. 200). Fig. 260 indicates how this capital and the corbel which it supported were FiCr. 259.— Tomb I. Showing arrftngeinenl of [he lining slabs. joined to each other and with the adjoining wall. The capitals are gone, but the position which they occupied is so well deter- mined, tiiat M. Thiersch did not hesitate to introduce one of the capitals in question in his sketch, entitled, Present State. We have followed his example. The bases of the semi-columns cleared by recent excavations are whole. To return to the corbels. The very peculiar aspect presented by the course answering to the salient tabular slabs, and the two superincumbent ones, will be noticed. The three blocks are smaller than the rest, and form a narrow band on the frontispiece which was clearly meant to be masked by a special facing, with a salience above and beyond the whole