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 122 HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. particularly those of the Ayazeen necropolis. Here multitudinous indications enable us to grasp that the artisans were beginning to feel the influence of Grecian art, albeit in the main they still adhered to the traditional processes of a former age. A certain class of subjects animals in pairs, for example, whether passant or rampant had taken too firm a foothold on Phrygian soil not to have FIG. 77. Tomb near Ayazeen. Fayade. Journal, 1882, Plate XXVI. been maintained for many centuries. Two or three specimens will suffice to give the reader some notion of this intermediary and composite style. MM. Ramsay and Blunt were the first to make known an hypogee which, to judge from the number of its troughs, must