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 Description and Restoration of Tomb I. 69 persed. Of these, one is at Mycena; (Fig. 204, b), another at Carlsruhe (Fig. 276, c), and the smallest, which belongs to the Berlin Museum, is engraved under two aspects below (Fig. 277. d). It is the same with the shaft. A piece of it preserved in the British Museum appears in Fig. 278; another fragment has already been referred to {Fig. 203). Accordingly, we have the ornament in all its detail, for both capital and shaft ; as to the height and outline of the column, they can be very easily defined. The base has not stirred, and in the perpendicular line of this, above the lintel, on either side of the doorway, there still exists a flat, corbelled stone, on the lower face of which are sealing-holes. These correspond with the holes noticeable on the upper face of the least-injured capital (Fig. 200). The length Fig. 277.— Tomb I. Green breccia fragmenl ofcapiwl. Lenph, om., ij; wjdlh, o m., lo;. of the shaft strictly so called, exclusive of the capital, is com- prised between the edge of the corbel and the base ; and the dimension of this makes it plain that the shaft affected the shape of an inverted truncated cone, like that of the Lions Gate (PI. XIV.). On the testimony of several travellers, a large piece of this shaft was lying on the ground in front of the edifice at the commencement of the century. Drawings of it were made by Dodwell and Lord Elgin's artist ; ' it is from the latter that we reproduce Fig. 279. In this fragment we recognize a portion of the shaft which came in contact with either the capital or the base, from the fillet bounding it at one end. 1 Gell, T/u Itinerary of Greece, 1810; Dodwell, A Classual and Topn- grophical T^ur through Greece, 1819 ; Leake, Travels in Morea, 1830.