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colonnade in the drawing, but really back of it, there is a similar entab- 

 lature. The frieze is ornamented with the figure of a winged lion, 

 crouching, left, and a dolphin with head downward, both in yellow. On 

 top of the cornice there is at the left end a large decorative volute of 

 greenish color, and at the right end a drab colored triangle which looks 

 like the beginning of a similar ornament or of a pediment. The left 

 end of the entablature rests on a slender whitish unfluted Ionic column, 

 which reaches to the bottom of the plaster; under the right end no col- 

 umn appears, but this part of the space between the two entablatures 

 is filled in with greenish gray color, the left edge of which is panelled, 

 an indication that this end of the colonnade was considered as solidly 

 closed. The space between this entablature and the top of the apse is 

 filled with a greenish band or plaque, which is ornamented with horizon- 

 tal yellow lines in the lower part and with a braid pattern in the upper 

 part, while the top edge is of open work. Color and technique indicate 

 that the band is supposed to be of bronze. At the left end it touches 

 a slender yellow column, but is not supported by it. This column, 

 which has the form of a vegetable stalk with leaves sprouting from the 

 side and a disc near the lower end, extends from the bottom of the plas- 

 ter contiguously with the apse to the top of the bronze band, where it 

 spreads into a sort of capital, upon which rested a slender Ionic column 

 belonging to the roof of the structure above. 1 



The structure just mentioned which decorates the upper part of the 

 right field is a sort of pavilion, consisting of a roof supported by columns. 

 Of the ridge-pole and eaves only the incised lines, which served as a 

 guide for the painter, together with some mud-colored traces and bits 

 of brownish yellow, remain. The side of the roof is represented by a 

 broad band at the left, having the form of a double curve (inverted 

 cyma reversa), and a similar band at the right. On both bands only 

 scanty traces of paint remain. From above the lower front corner of 

 the roof a sort of acroterion projects obliquely upward, and from the 

 front of the ridgepole a sort of anthemion resembling a bunch of grass, 

 projects forward horizontally. At the same end of the ridgepole there 

 is an upright ornament consisting of a sort of bulb or pod bisected 

 vertically by a line which ends above the top in an over-hanging flower 

 with thickened stem. The outside of the bulb is dark red with whitish 

 edges. The interior is the red of the background. The roof is sup- 

 ported by three columns, one of which, beneath the front, has been 

 mentioned above as resting on the top of the vegetable column at the 

 right of the apse ; another is a plain slender Ionic column extending from 



1 Of the lower end of this column which passed in front of the top of the apse only faint outlines 

 remain. 



