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 io6 HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. perpendicular shaft ; in most, however, the opening is in the centre of the fa9ade. For obvious reasons we are unable to dwell at length upon the tombs around Nacoleia, because the information to hand is far from being as minute and complete as that derived from our notes in regard to Delikli Tach. Professor Ramsay has made no plans of them, and confines himself to the general statement that the tombs in the great necropolis of Ayazeen offer a close analogy to the Midas monument. 1 The only one he describes is Fig. 60 (24 in plan), whose sculptured front is akin to the royal memorial, save that it has no false door. It is locally known as Maltash, the stone of the treasure. About 45 c. behind the frontispiece an oblong shaft, 4 or 5 m. deep, was cut down into the rock, in the floor of which appears a rectangular grave, now exposed and distinctly seen from above. The covering slab was probably removed by treasure-seekers when they broke the top of the pediment ; the shallow groove, however, into which the stone fitted, is visible to the present day in the sides of the rock. We are a little better off respecting a beautiful tomb south of Bakshish 2 (i in plan). From the data furnished by the various travellers who have visited it, we have been able to evolve the general view 3 (Fig. 61), plan (Fig. 62) and sketch (Fig. 63). The latter shows the groove for the covering slab on the apex of the monument and the situation of the chimney. The most remarkable specimens of memorials of this class, from a decorative standpoint, are found about three miles northward of Ayazeen, with entrance to the grave in the centre of the facade, as that of a house. The lion, which in Pteria is figured about the city and palace portals, or as support to the throne, watches here over the last abode of prince and grandee. The device seems to have found great favour in funereal architecture. The tomb in which 1 Studies, p. 17. 2 The rock bears a Phrygian inscription, but so much worn as to have been unde- tected on Professor Ramsay's first visit, when the sketches we reproduce were made. 8 Stewart, Plate VII. The general view was drawn, under the supervision of M. Chipiez, from original sketches made on the spot by MM. Wilson and Ramsay, including a photograph taken by the latter during a recent visit. The lower part of the facade is much worn, and the geometrical forms hopelessly obliterated by the influence of the weather. At the extreme eastern point of the Midas plateau is another tomb of the same general type as that at Bakshish. It is cut freer from the rock, except the back, which is engaged. The roof slopes on either side (Journal, x. p. 166, Fig. 19).