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THE FACADE AND COURTYARD OF THE TOMB
nee ted with this burial. From the size of the room it would appear as if
the portico was still standing, up to this point at least, when the former
was built; but it is difficult to see how it could extend over the room, as
the pier which would support the end architrave was more than half cut
away by the extension. The hillside recedes at this point; so that the
whole south end of the fagade above the paneled dado, including Stela G,
was built up of blocks. If this part collapsed early, the brick chapel may
have been built by some member of the family to replace it; for its
burial-pit balances that of Puyemre in the other corner. The shallowness
of the pit is probably due to a fear of cutting into the chamber of Shaft
X. Some blocks from Stela G or H were found in the filling of the pit.
A few millimeters of the return wall exist, showing the same batter
as the fagade. The lack of fragments from its paneled dado indicates that
it must have been chiseled away piecemeal. The existence of Stela H
seems indicated by the presence of the stones which I have assigned to it
(Plate LXX), all of which cannot, apparently, belong to Stela G, and one
of which shows clearly the point of the triangular panel which filled up the
corner. The block placed below this one, however, does not show the roll,
nor can its inscriptions be brought down to the level of the rest. But
some small irregularity may have existed which the scanty data we pos-
sess do not indicate. The adjacent side of the pilaster would afford a
triangular space which would balance that on the fagade (Plate LXXV).
Portico Front. The data for the reconstruction consist of the frag-
ments found, many of which are worked into the plans, and the founda-
tions still in situ. The latter, beginning from the north end, comprise (a)
two courses of the limestone blocks of the pilaster(P),1 (b) one course of
the sandstone blocks of the connecting wall (perhaps a reconstruction,
and half of it removed to give access to the later entrance of the tomb),
(c) the base and lower part of a sandstone column let into the rock, (d)
one course of the sandstone wall, (e) two sandstone blocks forming the
base and lower part of the central columns, (f) one course of the sand-
1 Being in limestone on both sides, and not bonded with the screen wall, they do not seem to form
part of it. Limestone pilasters (antae) would match the buttresses and boundary walls.
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nee ted with this burial. From the size of the room it would appear as if
the portico was still standing, up to this point at least, when the former
was built; but it is difficult to see how it could extend over the room, as
the pier which would support the end architrave was more than half cut
away by the extension. The hillside recedes at this point; so that the
whole south end of the fagade above the paneled dado, including Stela G,
was built up of blocks. If this part collapsed early, the brick chapel may
have been built by some member of the family to replace it; for its
burial-pit balances that of Puyemre in the other corner. The shallowness
of the pit is probably due to a fear of cutting into the chamber of Shaft
X. Some blocks from Stela G or H were found in the filling of the pit.
A few millimeters of the return wall exist, showing the same batter
as the fagade. The lack of fragments from its paneled dado indicates that
it must have been chiseled away piecemeal. The existence of Stela H
seems indicated by the presence of the stones which I have assigned to it
(Plate LXX), all of which cannot, apparently, belong to Stela G, and one
of which shows clearly the point of the triangular panel which filled up the
corner. The block placed below this one, however, does not show the roll,
nor can its inscriptions be brought down to the level of the rest. But
some small irregularity may have existed which the scanty data we pos-
sess do not indicate. The adjacent side of the pilaster would afford a
triangular space which would balance that on the fagade (Plate LXXV).
Portico Front. The data for the reconstruction consist of the frag-
ments found, many of which are worked into the plans, and the founda-
tions still in situ. The latter, beginning from the north end, comprise (a)
two courses of the limestone blocks of the pilaster(P),1 (b) one course of
the sandstone blocks of the connecting wall (perhaps a reconstruction,
and half of it removed to give access to the later entrance of the tomb),
(c) the base and lower part of a sandstone column let into the rock, (d)
one course of the sandstone wall, (e) two sandstone blocks forming the
base and lower part of the central columns, (f) one course of the sand-
1 Being in limestone on both sides, and not bonded with the screen wall, they do not seem to form
part of it. Limestone pilasters (antae) would match the buttresses and boundary walls.
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