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may have been somewhat curtailed on the left side and on the bottom, 

 where they reach the edges without seeming to be finished. 



Two groups of construction, one of which, on the right, occupies 

 about one-fifth of the available space, the other the remainder, are 

 represented as erected in front of a mural surface which is ornamented 

 with two horizontal bands. The lower of these bands, which is a little 

 above the middle of the fresco, is decorated with a repeated pattern, 

 which consists of two griffins facing each other at either side of a con- 

 ventional shrub and a similar but somewhat smaller shrub, which 

 serves as a connection between groups and is united with the larger 

 shrub by means of the tails of the adjacent griffins and a flowered vine 

 running beneath them. At the top of the band there is a narrow 

 border suggesting dentils. The color of this band was a yellow ochre. 

 The second band, which is at the level of the top of the architecture, 

 has at the bottom a wide stratum from which rise the figures of a re- 

 peated pattern consisting of a bunch of conventionalized plants spring- 

 ing from a dark red lyre-shaped base, which is crossed in the center 

 by several vertical yellowish lines or strings, and a winged head, perhaps 

 of a griffin, surmounted by a volute, the intervening space being occupied 

 by two scrolls. Both bands are alike in color. 1 



The structure on the left is a sort of two-story arbor, the ground- 

 plan of the lower part being an oblong with rounded ends. Two tall, 

 whitish, widely separated Corinthian columns are connected by a broad, 

 horizontal, bright yellow band, which joins them at a point just below 

 the capitals, and is ornamented with narrow horizontal stripes of red 

 and brown. The space thus enclosed is ornamented with a three-sided 

 yellow ochre band consisting of alternate longer and shorter panels of 

 which the former contain each a six-legged stem, the latter a figure like 

 two tridents turned in opposite directions. From either corner of the 

 upper side of the band an anthemion projects obliquely forwards. 

 The two streamers which hang from the upper horizontal band are 

 probably not to be regarded as in the same plane with the three-sided 

 band. 



To the columns are attached the rounded ends of the oblong enclo- 

 sure. They consist of a blue wall or curtain with a bright yellow band 

 at the top. On the right side, however, next to the column, a vertical 

 stripe, which was probably yellow originally but is now nearly faded out, 

 was painted over the blue. There is no trace of a corresponding stripe 

 on the left. The top band, which is ornamented with an angular mold- 

 ing above and a broad cyma reversa beneath, while between them there 

 are bosses in repousse, is probably conceived to be of metal. At the 



1 Owing to poor preservation now chiefly a thin mud-color. 



