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 124 HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. commit himself as to their sex (Fig. 81). Over the door, equally ill-determined and obscure, is repeated the subject, which externally occupies the centre of the frontal. The whole apartment was set out for the accommodation of the dead ; the end and side walls had each a niche, arched at the top, and troughs were hollowed in the floor of the chamber. No room was found for a late arrival, so that a couch had to be cut within the porch on the left-hand side. A similar mingling of architectural and ornamental forms may be observed in other hypogeia around this tomb and the flank of the hill, in which the lions reappear. 1 Of the many tombs Professor Ramsay has published, we will content ourselves with FIG. 80. Transverse section through line E F. Journal, Plate XXVII. FIG. 81. Transverse section through line G D. Journal, Plate XXVII. C. singling out the example whose fa9ade is adorned by two Ionic columns (Fig. 82, 31 in map). Nor is this the only necropolis wherein works of an art slowly undergoing transformation are met with ; instances likewise occur in the northern district, in the neighbourhood of Nacoleia. The most curious specimen of this class is the fine tomb, still in very good preservation, cut at the base of the rocky ridge upon which the village of Kumbet is planted (Fig. 83). It has a great advantage over the tombs of this canton in that it has been studied by an architect, 2 whilst the good condition in which it is found 1 Hell. Studies, Plates XXVII.-XXIX. 2 G. PERROT and GUILLAUME, Explor. Arche., pp. 138, 342, 368. The following figures (Figs. 84-88) are reproduced from drawings made by Guillaume. Sketches of this tomb had been previously published by Stewart, pp. 6, 16; by LABORDE,