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 THE PHOENICIAN TOMB. 159 below and shaped like a truncated pyramid above. At present the whole erection is about thirteen feet hiofh. It is more than FIG. 98. Tomb at Amrit restored. From Renan. probable that the pyramid was originally complete, as we see it in the restoration of M. Thobois (Fig. 98). The peculiarity of this tomb lies in the fact that the entrance to the staircase is FlG. 99. Longitudinal section of tomb at Amrit. From Renan. covered by a ridge roof, cut from a single block and supported laterally by a course of huge stones (Fig. 99).