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 i85 HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. tectural forms manifested in these monuments ; but in order to do this properly and judge of the nature of the ornamental scheme, drawings on a much larger scale than those to hand would be requisite. Then, too, following up the points in touch which a certain class of capitals seem to have with Ionic, Doric, and Corinthian capitals albeit not copied on any canonic types of Greek architecture would give rise to curious remarks. Are the analogies in question previous to the age when Hellenic architecture differentiated and fixed its types, or mere dis- tortions more or less barbarous ? We incline to the first hypothesis. The profiles of the mouldings in all these fagades are those of an archaic style rather than one of decay (Fig. 127). Another sign of remote antiquity is the very marked sloping of the jambs about the doorways (Figs. 75, 79, 92). If .a certain degree of hesitation may be felt in regard to the calathiform capital, found in very late monu- ments (Fig. 97), including the ex- ceedingly simple exemplar with a far-off resemblance to the Doric, this does not apply to those capitals whose forms approach those proper to the Ionic order. The latter are found in tombs, which, like the Yapuldak (Fig. 75), belong to the oldest group of hypogeia contained in these necropoles. Here, over the door leading from the second to the third chamber, is a small column with double volute a detail which was not lost upon the traveller who saw it ; but he neither described it with precision, nor was his visual appreciation carried into his sketch, where it is barely outlined. 1 As to the capitals encountered in the Ayazeen necropolis (Figs. 93-96), it is not easy to see in them borrowings from classical models ; one is rather inclined to range them in the category of those forms we have called Proto- Ionic, the outlines of which were first observed in Chaldsea and Assyria, and which would naturally come next after the series of those figured in the aedicula of lasili Ka'ia, in Pterium. 2 Thus each 1 BARTH, Reise von Trapezunt, pp. 93, 94. 2 Hist, of Art, torn. iv. pp. 694. 695, Figs. 314 321. FIG. 127. Tomb of the Ayazeen necro- polis, showing door-frame and profile of its mouldings.