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and the places for the bodies were sunk in the floor itself and 
covered with tablets of stone. In such cases we often see that 
two, or more, bodies have been ranged parallel with each other 
round the sides of the chamber, in the manner represented in the 
ground-plans (page 464), a circumstance which never occurs in 
the cellm, as we have already stated above. 
The galleries which are formed in one side of this ravine lead 
round the cliff into another valley, somewhat broader, in which are 
also several excavated tombs. In one of these, which has been 
furnished with a Doric portico, Mr. Campbell discovered the suite 
of beautiful little subjects which we have given with all the fidelity 
we could command in the plate (page 456). They are painted on 
the zophorus 'of an interior facade, of which we have given the 
elevation ; and each composition occupies one of the metopes, the 
pannel of which appears to have been left plain in order to set 
off the colours of the figures. The outline of these highly 
finished little groups has been very carefully put in with red: 
the local colour of the flesh and draperies have then been filled 
in with body colour, and the lights touched on sharp, with 
a full and free pencil, which reminded us strongly of the beau- 
tiful execution of the paintings at Herculaneum and Pompeii. 
There is no other attempt at light and shadow in any of them but 
that of deepening the local colour of the drapery in two or three 
places, where the folds are intended to be more strongly marked than 
in others ; the flesh being left (so far as can at present be ascertained) 
with no variation of the local colour produced either by light or 
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