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 352 ROMAN ARCHITECTURE. Part the Khasne or Treasury of Pharaoh — represented in elevation and section in the annexed woodcuts, Nos. 232 and 233. As will be seen, it consists of a square basement, adorned with a portico of four very 232. Khasne. (From Laborde's "Petra and Mount Sinai.") beautiful Corinthian pillars, surmounted by a pediment of low Grecian pitch. Above this are three very singular turrets, the use and a])pli- cation of which it is extremely difficult to understand. The central one is circular; and is of a well-understood sepulchral form., the use