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 362 History of Art in Antiquity. vrards, Dieulafoy. under more favourable circumstances, both in the matter of time and money, undertook to dear the site which his predecessor had partially uncovered. If, in order to operate simultaneously at several places, he was obliged to divide his hands into several working parties, yet he did not completely disengage the noble building towards which his main effort was directed, but he succeeded in bringing to light new and more important parts. At the same time, he tried to gain a general Fio. 177.— Son. Shaft of eoloBn hhI IhgntBt of cipitii. Aftsr M. Houmy's photograph. idea of the buildings that were grouped here, and the nature of the enceinte surrounding them. The progress of his work is shown by the trenches which he opened and noted down in the general plan we have borrowed from him (Fig. 6). Nor is this all. He recovered and brought to France fragments of edifices both numerous and varied, headed by the enormous stone capital which so bravely figures in the Louvre, together with hundreds of glazed bricks, which came as a surprise and revelation upon the public at large and artists, if not archaeologists versed in such matters. by means ol curtains pp. 374, 375). He records the fact that he sought in vain, by metns of trenches, for traces of a nail that would have interposed between the central square of odmnDS and the lateral porticoes