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 ARCHITECTURE. 265 and of clay were picked up. Above the ceiling of the mortuary chamber, charcoal was discovered heaped up to about two metres the remains apparently of the temple-store which served to consume funereal sacrifices. The royal mound consists of two conical masses put one upon the other, each with a truncated summit, the topmost being some- FIG. 162. Passage. Von Olfers, Plate IV. what more depressed than the one below (Fig. 163). The lower part of the cone, to the height of eight metres, is native rock ; then comes a circular wall of large units, fixed without mortar, which serves to keep in place the earthwork within the circle. The whole may be likened to a pie, of which the wall is the crust. 1 Here and there, the rock shoots up above the surrounding level, and projects internally beyond the wall line into the void, which it helps to fill (see plan, Fig. 159). Between these peaks, the artificial mass was disposed in regular layers, one of clay, one of 1 The total height of the tumulus is sixty-one metres, and the artificial mouncl from the top of the built wall, forty-three metres.