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 THE PHOENICIAN TOMB. 161 assistants of M. Renan. 1 Several blocks of stone were here removed, and the wet mud on which the floor rests was reached. So that it appears certain that the monument stands upon the sand, and does not, like its neighbours, cover a subterranean chamber. It forms, therefore, a unique variation upon the type of Phoenician tomb we FIG. 100. The Burdj-el-Bezzak. Upper chamber. From Kenan. have described above, a type we shall encounter in other cemeteries besides that of Arvad. The next most important necropolis in Syria is that of Sidon. The most curious discoveries have been made in it. As might be guessed, it is larger than the cemetery of Arvad, Sidon and its suburbs were far richer and more populous than the FIG. loi. The Burdj-el-Bezzak. Lower chamber. From Kenan. group of cities of which Arvad was the head. If, in spite of its wide extent, this cemetery is hardly so interesting to the archaeologist as that of Amrit, it is because none of its tombs o have preserved their upper members the part that rose above the 1 Mission, p. 87. VOL. I.