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 IO HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. came from the quarry (Fig. 213), the larger units having been reserved for the ceiling. These chambers are, as a rule, half embedded in the ground, and vary in size according as they were to receive one or several bodies. 1 Towards the extreme end of the peninsula of Halicarnassus, FIG. 213. Tomb near lasus. Texier, torn. iii. Plate CXLVI., Fig. 8. bearing to the southward, rises the Acropolis now called Assarlik ; and whether it corresponds to Syangela or Termera, there is no doubt as to its marking the site of one of those Carian or Lelegian cities whose importance, towards the fourth century B.C., gave way before Halicarnassus, one of the most flourishing centres of '& '* f>M FIG. 214. Tumulus at Assarlik. Plan. PATON, Excavations, p. 67. Asia Minor, during the reign of Hekatomnos and his successors. Near the citadel is a necropolis of considerable size, which attracted the attention of Sir Charles Newton some thirty years ago, 2 and which has been more recently studied by M. Paton, 1 TXIER, Description, fol., torn. iii. p. 141 ; explanatory of Plates, 146. 2 NEWTON, A Hist, of Discoveries at Halicarnassus^ Cnidus, and Branchida, p. 583.