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 158 A History of Art in Sardinia and Jud^a. thoughtful care bestowed upon it by the builder. To this end we engaged all the available hands the place could furnish to clear the entrance and its approaches of the earth under which the stones were buried, all except the top ; ^ setting up such as had fallen on their faces so as to judge of the carving upon them. Our plan (Fig. 324) shows the disposition of the structures ; and its relief is indicated in the general elevation (Fig. 325) and longitudinal section (Fig. 326), even as they appeared when we '^^,-^^^^^ Fig. 324. — Plan of the Ruins of Eyuk. Plate LV. had uncovered them. A stage or landing, 5 m. 20 c. broad, stood outside the front wall, and formed a kind of vestibule, to which a gentle incline or paved ramp may have led from the plain, as at Boghaz-Keui (Fig. 301), for we could find no vestiges of steps having been there. But the monolith forming the threshold is still in place ; the lintel, however, has given way, and a frag- ment, trapezoidal in shape, lies some paces in front, with the neck and claws of a lion carved upon it, which may have belonged thereto (Fig. 324, 18). Lions, it will be remembered, were also ^ Barth did not attempt to disengage them, and his drawing only shows the upper part.