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 TOMBS IN PAPHLAGONIA. 199 FIG. 137. Hambar Kara. Plan of tomb. Plate V. Hirschfeld, on a slightly higher level, is enframed by a double fascia ; the height of its three columns, including base and capital, measures 3m. 13 c. (Fig. 138). Their short massive appearance is due to the marked diminution of the shafts towards the top. 1 The base is a very large torus and narrow listel ; the capi- tal, which is quad- rangular, consists of three platbands put one upon the other ; their salience beyond the shaft, even the topmost, is very feeble. A mere out- line served to distin- guish the pediment which stood over the portico from the sur- rounding rock ; there is no cornice to define and shelter its field, so that wind and rain have played havoc with the figures carved on the inclined surface. Distinguishable with the first morning light, however, are a bird at the left angle of the frontal, and a quadruped, seemingly a lion, in front of it. The decoration was in all like- lihood symmetrical an hypothesis borne out by the fact that remains of outline are visible on the other side, where we may suppose that bird and lion were repeated (Fig. 139). The door is neither central with the porch, nor with the apartment to which it gave access. The sepulchral chamber is quite plain, with a roof-like sloping ceiling, and a recess or mor- tuary shelf pierced in the further wall, 55 c. above the soil, and 95 c. wide. The monument stands well. The architect entrusted with the building was singularly happy in the selection of the site, high up in the clifif, overhanging the flat stretch below. The rude proportions of the columns harmonize 1 The upper diameter is 19 c. less than the lower, a considerable difference in a height of 2 m. 19 c. measured by the shaft. FIG. 138. Hambar Kaia. Column. Ibid.