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 FUNEREAL ARCHITECTURE. (Fig. 219) belongs to a necropolis some three miles southward of Halicarnassus. Its discovery is due to MM. Winter and Judeich. It is obvious that we are confronted here by a sepul- chral enceinte, respecting which unusual precautions were taken to protect the dead against the living; instanced in several ditches surrounding it, as well as huge blocks set up around the graves, the larger stone being placed lintel-wise over the entrance. A doorway lower than this appears at the further side ; the wall out of which it opens is built of stones of the smallest pattern. It may be modern, and have been used to pen cattle. 1 The FIG. 219. Funereal enceinte. Caria. Mittheilungen t xii. p. 225. tombs found within enceintes of this description were mere hollows, and recall those at lasus ; they are fenced round now by huge tiles, one for each side, now by the same number of stones. A larger unit, rounded and flattened towards the edges, serves as lid. Such contrivances are no more than boxes, some 30 c. wide by 45 c. Bodies could not lie at length in them. They were meant to receive the ashes of the dead, which have been found either on the bare earth, more often in a terra-cotta vase, a large pith os with pointed base. Nor were urns the only pieces of furni- ture about these tombs ; smaller vases of more varied shape, arms, and personal ornaments are often met with, both within the vaults of tumuli and the receptacles sunk in the surface of the soil. 1 WINTER, Vasen aus Karien, pp. 224, 225 ; in Mitthtilungen des K. d. fnsti/uts, Athenische Abiheilung, torn. xii. pp. 223, 224.