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 THESEUM, ERECHTHEUM, AND OTHER WORKS. 189 dentils was a large palmette. The gutter (as shown in Figs. 22 and 23) was copied from Ephesus. The coffers of the lacunaria were very rich and deep, having three recesses with carved mouldings ; the lowest a fine egg and tongue, and the upper two, as shown in the sketch from the Museum. (Fig. 190.) Several large pilaster-like caps from square piers were found on the site. Some are in the Museum. They seem to have supported statues, and they are later than the temple Some are shown in VuUiamy's etchings and also in Donaldson's sketches at the In- stitute of Architects. A smaller one at the Museum is described as a pilaster cap, but it seems to be the anta of a small building — the Propylaea? It agrees well with the size of one of the ordinary capitals of the Propylaea. (Fig. 191.) Fig. 192 shows a naturalistic element in the carving of the antae of the temple Fig. 192. — Priene, Lilies from carving. The Lion Tomb at Cnydos. Of this noble work only the recumbent lion which sur- mounted the pyramid was brought away. Details of the structure were published by Newton and Pullan, and the original sketches are in the MSS. Room at the Museum. Sir C. Newton thought it commemorated a naval victory of the year 394. The monument stood on a rocky promontory 200 feet above the sea, and was about 40 feet high, the length of the lion is nearly 10 feet. "The eyes now wanting were probably of vitreous paste or perhaps of precious stones. Pliny tells of a marble lion on the tomb of a prince in Cyprus with emerald eyes." From the sketches I give a detail of one of the stone shields about 3.6 diameter, which were set between the columns of the base- ment. (Fig. 193.) This monumental use of shields has been Fig. 193. — Lion Tomb, detail of Shields.