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 The Subterranean Tomb. 335 tion, on the band enframing it and the return angle or narrow edge next to the surface of the native rock.* This supplementary field is divided into three compartments corresponding with the three stages of the main subject On the front face of each division appears a single figure, and two at the sides. On the left the figures represent guards carrying long spears, and on the right servitors unarmed. Inside, the simplicity of these tombs is in strong contrast with the lavish Fig. 107. — Persepohs. Plan of royal toml) south-east of the platfurm. Flandin and Coste, BvatauAimt, Plate CLXIIL display of the architectural and sculptural ornament of the exterior. The entrance between the central intercolumnation was low and narrow, and could only be entered by stooping very low ; ' and after the body had been deposited in it, it was carefully walled up. The vault divides itself into a kind of vestibule and a somewhat lower chamber, in the floor of which are hollowed, according to the tombs, from one to nine funereal troughs (Figs. 107, 108^. The ' Oor Plate I. is almost a front view, so that the figures on tlic return angle are invisible; for on the i^gbt tb^ vtt in diadow, and the edge is not seen (m the left. It is the same with most of the news of these tonbt engraved by Coste and Tt-xicr; like ours, they all approach more or less the perpendicular. A very good idea may be gained of this arrangement by referring to the photogravure Dieulafoy has just published of the tomb of Darius {Ferse^ torn, i Plate X.). It is a side view, and the whole of the Uiree divisions on the left are seen, finally, our section a little farther on shows the true position of the figmes of the dde band facing the spectator (Fig. 388). Q L.i^u,^cci by Google
 * The actual entrance is four or five feet. — Trs.