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 254 HISTORY OK ART i PIIH.NICIA AND ITS I )KI'K.DKCIKS. traced in the salient part of the roof. Finally, at about three- quarters of the height, inside, and near the anterior edge of the lateral walls, there is, on each side of the doorway, a hole about fifteen centimetres deep and ten square (H in Fig. 185). These two holes seem, from their si/e and position, to have been meant F|I;. iS6.-- Ci-ilin^i'f tlii- M;iaK"l at Ainritli. Fr:n Kenan. to receive an iron or wooden bar for a curtain by which the interior of the sanctuary could be protected from profane eyes. " The tabernacle is about twenty-four feet high. Its general aspect is Egyptian, but Egyptian with a difference. The fillet and cornice on four of the edges of the monolithic roof are its only ornament. This severity of style, and the notion of force aroused Fic.. iSj. The Maabed at Amiith. I'lan at A n (Fig. 185). From Renan. by the huge materials employed, are characteristics similar to those we have already noticed in speaking of the sepulchral monuments of Amrith. " The four walls of the rock which serves as a base to the edifice are smooth for the upper two-thirds of their height ; the