THE PIKK.NICIAN TOMT.. 157 mouldings is very careful ; on the other hand, the four lions seem to have been left unfinished ; their hasty execution is in strong con- trast with the careful workmanship of the architecture. Perhaps, however, their comparative roughness may have been intended to add to their effect when seen from a distance. The tomb chamber ^7%^ZZ^ rN >*""'"' -^ wQggz^fe-- FIG. 9$ Tomb at Ami-it. Restoration in perspective. l-'r.>m Rennn. beneath is reached by a flight of fifteen steps. We give a plan and section of it in Figs. 96 and 97. l The design of the monument which stands at a distance of about twenty feet from that just described is less happy (Fig. 93). 2 It is 1 RENAN, Mission, pp. 71-73, and plates xi., xii., xiii. - Ibid. p. 73, and plates xi. and xii.
