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 iO4 HISTORY OK ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. the soil. The principle facade, which faces westwards, is one hundred feet long. The depth of the house is also about a hundred feet, the height of the walls is about twenty feet and their thickness about thirty-two inches. The interior was divided Fit;. 37. Rock-cut house .it Anirit. From Kenan. into at least three chambers by partitions left in the same way. The external wall to the north was artificial ; its lowest courses are still to be found hidden in the soil, the south wall was partly rock, partly masonry." In the island situated to the north of the FIG. 38. Rock-cut walls at Saida. From Kenan. modern town of Saida the rocky soil still bears traces of similar works. The lower parts of walls are shaped as they stand ; we find them pierced in many parts with niches and rectangular or 1 REN AN, Mission de P/ienide, p. 92.