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 184 HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE. Part I. antis, as in the two previous illustrations.' Unfortunately the cornice is broken away, and the whole is more carelessly executed than is usual in these sculptures. Another curious representation (Woodcut No. 76) is that of a palace of two stories, from a bas-relief at Koyunjik, shoAving a range of openings under the roof in both stories, each opening being divided into three parts l)y two Ionic columns betAveen square piers, and ai-e probably meant to represent such an arrangement as that shoAvn in Woodcuts Xos. 73 and 74. On the right the upi>er story is a correct representation of the panelled style of ornamentation above alluded to as recently discovered at Khorsabad and elscAvhere, and Avhich we know from recent discoA^eries to have been so favorite a mode of decorating Avails in that age. The most i-L'inarkable fact, hoAvever, that Ave gather from all these illustrations, is that the favorite arrangement Avas a group of pillars " distyle in antis," as it is technically termed ; Aaz., two circular pillars between two square piers. It is frequently found elscAvdiere in the fayade of tombs, but here it seems to have been repeated over and over again to make up a com- jilete design. For a temple such an arrangement Avould have been inadmissible ; for a r)alace it seems sino-ularly ap- 77. King's Tent. (From Bas-relief. British Museum.) ^. ^, * •' ' ^ l)ropriate and elegant. Further com])arisons Avill, no doubt, do much to complete the suljject ; and Avhen the names written over these bas-reliefs are definitively deciphered, Ave may find that Ave really possess contemporary rejiresentations, if not of Jerusalem, at least of Lachish, Susa, and other cities familiar to us both from ancient and from modern history. We have no representation of the dAvellings of private in- 1 i iduals so complete as to enable us to understand them, but there lli)isc-l'iMit ( Xiinn ' This fiic;a(l(', as I read it, is identical with tilt; oni; 1 crectod at the Crystal Pal- aoo as a representation of an Assyrian fa- vade, long before this slab was exhumed.