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 312 HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. of the tumulus will be found in Fig. 2 1 7. But the circular wall that surrounds the mound at a distance, and forms a kind of sacred S,jo .-- -> FIG. 217. Tumulus at Gheresh Plan, PATON, Excavations, p. 80. area, is peculiar to these monuments and is never met with in Lydia (Fig. 218). Of the vast majority of the tombs that certainly existed here, nothing remains but a low, ill-constructed wall of two or three irregular courses, which bounded the tumu- lus and upheld the mass. Lack of a casing to pro- tect and support these walls is cause that the rains have penetrated the tumulus and carried down stones and earth, heaping them upon the ground. The fact that no fune- real beds have been found here, akin to those of Phry- gia and Lydia, is pretty convincing proof that the Carians practised incinera- tion. The tombs in this necropolis were not all of the same size and on the same pattern, for, side by side with those of a certain importance, we come upon quite a large number of small, unpretending graves, mostly put within rectangular re- cesses which are fenced by a low wall. The tower-like structure FIG. 218. Tumultis wiih its circular wall. Plan. Ibid.