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 TOMBS IN PAPHLAGONIA. 209 taken to conceal or render access to the mortuary chamber difficult, as is the case in the older Phrygian tombs ; graves with wells are non-existent. Then, too, throughout Paphlagonia, porches are the due accompaniment of tombs of some importance, and are generally associated with a rudimentary, unadorned pediment ; a characterless outline alone interposing between it and the uneven surface of the rock. But in Phrygia the pediment only occurs in tombs upon which the word " recent " might be written, and are always enframed in a cornice more or less salient, which continues that of the entablature. And again, in the Paphlagonian fa9ades, pillars sufficiently resemble one another to permit of their being classed in one dis- tinct order ; whilst if we except Fig. 149, in which a lion's head forms the capital, base and crown are nearly alike. In the Ayazeen ne- cropolis, however, where scores of tombs are adorned by porches, the shape of supports is exceedingly varied. Nor is this all ; mortuary couches are by no means the rule in Phrygia, whilst in the basin of the Halys scarcely a tomb is without them. Here, too, doors are all on the same pattern a small opening devoid of ornament, nearly always rectangular, and dr. i m. above the ground (Fig. 152). In Phrygia portals are much taller, trapeziform, on a plane with the portico, and wreathed in a frame made up of several mouldings. It follows, therefore, that the craftsmen who fashioned the tombs at Hambar Kai'a and Iskelib had no hand in building the monuments met with in the upper valley of the Sangarius on the Phrygian plateau ; their habits are not precisely similar, and preference is given to other arrangements. Externally, the Paphlagonian ornamentist does not make use of certain themes, such as patterns derived from tapestries, which are so popular with his Phrygian colleague. What most resembles the hypogeia of the Paphlagonian group is the tomb of Alajah, situate on the VOL. i. p FIG. 152. Iskelib. Tomb I. Section under porch. Hirschfield, Plate VI.