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 Architecture or Asia Minor. 25 detached tombs are perfectly constructed monolithic tombs, consisting of a double pedestal supporting a sarcophagus, which is surmounted by a curvilinear roof, evidently bor- rowed from a wooden form, apparently that of a boat turned upside down. The second class — those cut in the rock — have either sculptured facades, or a kind of framing stand- ing out from the rock (Fig. 15), closely resembling the fronts of primitive log huts. At a later date, imitations of porticoes on columns, betraying the influence of the Greeks, supplanted these carpentry forms. Fig. 15. — Rock-cut Tomb at Myra in Lycia.