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DRAWING ADOPTED FROM P. L .-H. VINCENT AND P. M.-A . STEVE JERUSALEM DE L’ANCIEN TESTAMENT, VOL. 1 (PARIS, 1954), PL. 89

CUT OUT OF THE NATURAL ROCK, the Tomb of the Kings consists of a monumental staircase, a spacious courtyard, and a maze of underground chambers for up to 50 burials (plan shown here). The tomb’s grand portico is decorated with a beautiful Doric frieze, while only one base remains of the pair of towering Ionic columns that originally guarded its entrance.