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 196 HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. FIG. 132. Kastamouni. Tomb i. Plate V. the hypogeum was pointed out by MM. Shanykof and Mordt- mann, some time before M. Hirschfeld visited it. But he was the first to light upon the tomb called Hambar Kaia (Barn Rock), situated in a deep valley of the Halys, marked " Terra in- cognita" in Keipert's map. 1 The vault is hollowed in the northern face of a Frontal. Hirschfeld, majjs whjch j uts Qut from the body of the hill, along the right bank of the river, into a kind of promontory (Fig. 136). The frontispiece, to the height of 13 m. 70 c., is inwrought with a gentle upward slope, but the lines of the porch by which the chamber is entered have all been main- tained in a vertical plane. 2 The result has been to leave along the whole front, between the talus and the base of the columns, a ledge or step 7 m. long and 74 c. wide (Fig. 137). Above it, by way of balustrade, the rock was cut into three lions couchant, seen in profile. Their sides are left in the rough, and adhere to the cliff, whose slope they continue. Except for the back, head, and paws, it would be hard FIG. 133. Kastamouni. Tomb I. Ceiling of chamber. Ibid. FIG. 134. Kastamouni. Tomb 2. Transverse sec- tion of chamber. Ibid. FIG. 135. Tomb 4. Transverse section of chamber. Ibid. to make out the kind of animal to which they be- long. They have suf- fered very much from the weather; their pose, however, would seem to be pretty near the same as that of those bronze lions which in Assyria served as weights. 3 The porch, whose floor is 1 For a detailed account of the monument and of its geographical position, consult M. HIRSCHFELD, Memoir, pp. 9, n. 2 M. Hirschfeld estimates the angle made by the talus with the vertical line at 12. 3 Hist, of Art, torn. iii. pp. 566, 567, Plate XI.