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 I2O HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. in the Hittite character (Fig. 76), which in Cypriote writing appears in a more cursive form. The tomb whose fagade we reproduce (Fig. 75, 2 in map) is FIG. 75. Tomb at Yapuldak. Elevation of fa9ade and section through axis of the same. Plate XXVIII. found at Yapuldak. It consists of three chambers in a row extending right through the hill, and may be likened unto a tunnel with opening at either end, or east and west. The hypogee opens on to a spacious platform facing eastward, with parapet cut in the stony mass ; down it the rock has not been touched, and has been left in its native state. On this side, too, was certainly the path taken by the funereal procession and the friends of the deceased, as they wound up the gentle acclivity of the hill, conveying the dead to these artificial grottoes. The efforts of the decorator were concentrated on the posterior fagade, which faces northward and dominates the valley ; whence, about half-way up, the wrought front may be 1 The sign is likewise figured by PROF. SAYCE, Monuments of the Hitfifes, p. 28, n. 3. TRS. FIG. 76. Hit- tite character. WRIGHT, The Empire of the Hittites, 2nd ed., Plate X., I, 4- 1