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 82 Primitive Gkekce: Mvcknian Art. of dowels, but the rough surface of the wall can hardly have been left exposed, and may have been faced by coloured plaster. What lends colouring to this conjecture is the fact that other parts of the fa9ade preserve important remains of a decoration very similar to that of Tomb I., both in work- manship and intention. Dr. Adler raises the question whether a very rude lion's head of grey trachyte which he saw in the museum at Charvati is not one of a pair that once stood upon the widely-projecting slabs of the capital.' Between these, above the lintel, are slabs of bluish-grey marble, on which there is cut, in flat relief, the beam ends of a roof; they form a pent-house whose salience was less than that of the brazen beam of the neighbouring tomb. Two of these slabs are in position. Other fragments of the decoration were brought out by the excavations ; here it is a band of this same marble with spirals, there two others, but this time of red porphyry ; on the one are seen triglyphs and metopes, and spirals on the other. The latter must have been part of the external slab closing the triangle. It is quite unnecessary to reproduce these oft-recurring ' Tirym.