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The interior of the structure is made up of two separate barrel-vaulted structures. The antechamber is unusually large: 6.5 m wide, 2.12 m long and 7.7 m high. This is because it is built to match the monumental scale of the facade. The chamber seems to have been unpainted, but it was
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The tomb is best-known for the four paintings in the lower half of the facade. These are located in the upper part of the spaces between the Doric columns. In the outer left space, there is a warrior, depicted frontally, looking slightly to the right. His left hand rests on the sheath of his sword,
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528:Στεφανή, Ευαγγελία (2012). "Ελεφάντινα αντικείμενα από τον τάφο της Κρίσεως και οι συμβολικές χρήσεις του ελεφαντόδοντου από την ελίτ / Ivory artefacts of the tomb of Judgement and the symbolic uses of ivory by the "elite"". In Αδάμ-Βελένη, Πολυξένη; Τζαναβάρη, Κατερίνα (eds.).
456:Στεφανή, Ευαγγελία (2012). "Ελεφάντινα αντικείμενα από τον τάφο της Κρίσεως και οι συμβολικές χρήσεις του ελεφαντόδοντου από την ελίτ / Ivory artefacts of the tomb of Judgement and the symbolic uses of ivory by the "elite"". In Αδάμ-Βελένη, Πολυξένη; Τζαναβάρη, Κατερίνα (eds.).
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