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UNFINISHED TOMB IN PETRA ' 



In hewing out the ornamental fagade of a tomb the workmen began from above. The face of the rock was 

 first scarped to the perpendicular and on its smooth surface the design of the tomb was traced. Then, working 

 in a horizontal gallery cut in the rock, the capitals of the columns were cut out, and this work, with about a foot 

 of the column itself and the bare lines of the entablature above, is all that has been finished. Working down- 

 ward is obviously the easiest way and is that followed in the case of the celebrated cave temples at Elephanta, 

 Salsette, Ellora, Ajuntah, and other places in the west of India. A doorway in the lower left-hand corner of the 

 unfinished tomb admits to a good-sized chamber, containing receptacles for dead bodies 



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