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 316 HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. possible that, were a complete tracing of the rampart made, some sort of guess might be hazarded as to the intentions of the for- gotten authors of a work which, though rude, they endowed with a certain degree of grandeur by sheer massiveness and extent. The towers, distributed over the length of the rampart at about FIG. 221. Gateway in the Leleges' WalL TfexiEK, Description, Plate CXLVII. 100 m. one from the other, form a semi-circular salience over the curtain (Fig. 222); their thickness, at the height of the window, is 4 m. ; that of the wall, 3 m, ; and the height of the courses averages i m. (Fig. 223). of other buildings, nor would it have been possible to erect any save within a few narrow corners. Nevertheless there must have been here a large population. The construction of the wall is good. At stated intervals are round towers, furnished with small doorways. Between the towers, resaults and the same kind of openings. Both gates and resaults seem to have been provided for the double purpose of facilitating sorties and preventing the enemy approaching the wall. Here and there, pierced towards the top of the wall, are openings level with the ground on the city side, but at a considerable height towards the plain."