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 TiiK Built Tomb. 199 unnoticed by previous explorers (Fig, 96). It will be observed that the doorway placed opposite the facade of the Gabre is not in the axis of the monument, but a trifle to the right. The visitor who should happen to be in the exterior court could not have perceived the door of the naos, or diminutive chamber consti- '0 "lo 5 So M.«i Fig. 96.— The Gabre. Plan restored. Dieulafov, VArt aniiqut de la Peru, Plate XVIII. tuting the essential part of the arrangement, its organic centre as it were, without which the pile would not have been constructed. The arrangements throughout betray solicitude to conceal first of all the structure itself, then more particularly the case it harbours