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 ORNAMENT AND INDUSTRIAL ARTS. i8r 'SM 124. Tomb near lasili Kaia. Plan. Texier, Plate LVII. borrow elevation (Fig. 123), plan (Fig. 124), and section (Fig. I25). 1 His tracing, however, shows no sign of the detail in ques- tion, which we were the first to point out, of which a fair idea may be gained from M. Guillaume's sketch (Fig. i26). 2 Imitation of wooden forms extends from the exterior to the interior of the building, where it may be traced in pieces of furniture. Thus, within the tomb figured above were funereal beds for the bodies, cut in the solid rock (Fig. 1 25). 3 They are much too plain to be considered, like those M. Heuzey brought out from the depths of a tumulus at Pidna, as copies of costly furniture, luxurious couches, metal-plated, upon which the wealthy reclined at banquets. These are modelled on the ordinary in- stances to be found in every house, of which the hypogeia are faith- ful representations. Among other orna- mental details to be mentioned as imitated from timber structures, are those raised roundels about the pedi- ment, which bring to mind the salient knobs seen on the door- valve (Fig. 58). It would even seem that a door-handle was 1 TEXIER, Description, torn. i. p. 156. 3 PERROT and GUILLAUME, Explor. Arete., torn. i. pp. 146, 147. 8 HEUZEY and DAUMET, Mission archeo. de Macedoine, Plates XX., XXI. FIG. 125. Tomb near lasili Kai'a. Transverse section. Texier, Plate LVII.