518 THE MOUNTAIN OF SEPULCHRES. 
occupies, is fifty-three feet. For the details of its proportions, 
see the plan, (Plate XVIII.) all drawn to a scale of measurement, 
as far as was within my reach. 
The division above the front of the tomb is the excavation 
which contains the sculptured figures, and is cut in the way of 
a sort of frame inclosing them. The representation within 
consists of a double tier of fourteen figures each, in the style of 
caryatides, with their hands raised over their heads, supporting 
two beautifully friezed cornices. The figures are all habited the 
same, in short tunics ; some having their waists bound with a 
simple belt3 and others with a dagger pending from it, on the 
right hip ; all are bare-headed, but the hair being very bushy, 
has the appearance of a wig. These persons, with the cornices 
they support, form the face of a kind of elevated platform, 
something like our ancient table-tombs, but there is no com¬ 
parison in the dimensions. Each side of the structure is finished 
by a pillar of a very extraordinary shape. We may divide it 
into four parts; the base resembles an urn, on which rests the 
huge paw and limb of a lion, descending from the columnar 
part of the pillar, which is fluted horizontally half-way up ; and 
from its summit issues the head and shoulders of the unicorn- 
bull, but without ornaments. The back of the neck unites it 
with the highest cornice, which forms the top of the structure3 
therefore the heads of the two bulls which form the pillars at 
each end, rise higher than the plane they support. On this 
plane stands a figure, elevated on a pedestal of three steps. 
He is dressed in an ample robe flowing to his ancles ; in his left 
hand he holds a strung bow ; his right arm is stretched half out 
with the hand quite open ; bracelets are round the wrists, his head 
is bare, the hair bushy behind, and neatly curled 3 his beard falls 
