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English: Unidentified tomb inside Saint Nicholas Princely Church in Curtea de Argeș, Romania, rediscovered during the extensive work on the church made in the 1910s by Dumitru Norocea. Generally seen as housing the body of an early Prince of Wallachia, either Basarab I or Vladislav Vlaicu (see Maria Ana Musicescu, Grigore Ionescu, Biserica Domnească din Curtea de Argeș, pp. 26–31. Bucharest: Editura Meridiane, 1967). Museographer Marius Achim, building on observations made by Norocea, suggests that the work predates the foundation of Wallachia in the 1330s, and the church itself; according to his reading, it was included in an earlier Catholic chapel built by the Knights of Saint John during their 13th-century takeover of the Argeș Valley. Achim notes that the tomb is that of a titular knight, and interprets the carvings, including the Tree of Life and the "reduplicated Star of David" as esoteric symbols, possibly evoking the Arian Church (see Marius Achim, "Dumitru Norocea și Biserica Domnească din Curtea de Argeș", in Muzeul Municipal Curtea de Argeș. Studii și Comunicări, Vol. V, 2013, pp. 131–132).