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 MATERIALS AND CONSTRUCTION. 105 roundheaded doorways ; in a few instances even partition walls are rock cut. (Fig. 38). 1 FIG. 39. Fragment of the map of Amrit. Fr We find the same contrivance in a curiously arranged temple, which must have been one of the earliest of the shrines of Marath. FIG. 40. The Tabernacle of Amrit. From Renan. A large quadrangle, 192 feet by 160, has been cut in the living rock (Fig. 39). In the centre has been left a block some twenty feet 1 RENAN, Mission de Phenicic, p. 363. 2 Ibid. pp. 62-68, and plates viii. and x. VOL. I. P