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 FUNEREAL ARCHITECTURE. 129 whatever it was, could certainly not be to reach the chimney, obtained, as at Delikli Tach, in the vertical plan of the tomb above the grave-chamber. There never existed here an opening of this kind, as everybody may see for himself if he will take the trouble of entering the double grave, pierced right through the rocky mass in which the tomb occurs (Fig. 85). The false bay of the older rock- cut facades has been replaced by a real door, surrounded by double mouldings, which opens in the centre of the frontispiece. Curious discoveries might be ours, had attempts been made to ascertain the possible existence of a substructure, and study the old soil hidden under accumu- lated earth, which can scarcely be more than fifty centimetres below the present level, proved by longitudinal section (Fig. 86). Right and left of the door, be- tween the jambs and the outer edge of the facade, appears a sculptured figure. On the dexter hand it is the front part of a bull, with a hump on his back, like the bison of America and the Indian zebu ; the variety no longer exists ire Anterior Asia, but we find it figured on the autono- mous coins of this province, on those of Ancyra, 1 Eumenia, 2 Kibyra, 3 as well as in the bas- FIG. 85. Kutnbet tomb. Plan. Plate VII. Explor. , FIG. 86. Kumbet tomb. Longitudinal section. Explor., Plate VII. 1 MIONET, Me dailies grecques et romaines, torn. iv. p. 219. 2 Ibid., p. 293. 3 Ibid., p. 28; Supplement, lorn, viii. p. 533. VOL. I. K