34 BELLEROPHON TOMB. 



pearance, at Tlos, is the largest and most in- 

 teresting. It is a temple-tomb fronted by a 

 pediment, borne on columns of peculiar form and 

 Egyptian aspect, having no carved capitals, and 

 being wider at the base than at the upper part. 

 From such columns the Ionic might have ori- 

 ginated, for we can hardly suppose this, appa- 

 rently the most ancient and important tomb in 

 Tlos, to have been left unfinished. Within the 

 portico is a handsome carved door, or rather 

 imitation door, with knocker and lock, on each 

 side of which are windows opening into large 

 tombs. On one side of the portico is carved a 

 figure, which we may recognise as Bellerophon, 

 mounted on Pegasus, and galloping up a rocky 

 hill, which may represent Mount Cragus, to 

 encounter an enormous leopard sculptured over 

 one of the tomb entrances on the right side of 

 the door. This animal may be a form of Chi- 

 msera, but presents none of the mythological at- 

 tributes, and is, in all probability, the represen- 

 tation of a "Caplan," the leopard which infests 

 the crags of Cragus at the present day. An 

 ornamental flourish appears on the door-side 

 near the leopard, and is repeated on the corres- 

 ponding panel on the other side ; but there is 



