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 The Subterranean Tomb. 227 unsymmetrical arrangement being due to late additions that formed no part of the original plan. The very peculiar arrangement of two of the tombs at Naksh-i-Rustem (see our general view, • t I k r

Fio. iio.->NaktM>Rnten. Plan of tombs on the left. Flamdin and COnv, ikmtmdmmt PUte CLXX. Fig. 102, to the left), in which curved lines take to some extent the place of straight ones (Fig. no), should be noticed. No inscription, no ornament appear on the walls of these hypogcia ; . ••It. Fro. iii.—PenepoUt. Tomb on lb« nocth-cpst Loo^tadinal sectiM. iM., Plalc CLXV. all are simple, and their dimensions are not great. The chambers have flat roofs» savie one at Persepolis, situated to the north-east of the plateau, whose vestibule is vaulted (Fig. in). There is yet another feature by which this tomb is distinguished from her sisters. The frontispiece, rock-cut as everywhere else, offered Digitized by Google
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