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 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CARIAN CIVILIZATION. 327 garment. 1 Bracelets, spirals, and bronze fibulae are not rare. The only specimen which is intact will be found at Fig. 242. FIG. 242. Bronze fibula. Actual size. After Paton, p. 74. On the other hand, defensive arms, spear-heads, knife-blades, with point often twisted, are all of iron. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CARIAN CIVILIZATION. ' We have endeavoured to give as complete an inventory as possible of Carian culture, but the results we have reached are far from satisfying our curiosity. Nevertheless we will point out the most salient features, such as are likely to linger in the memory. The constructive methods of the Carians had nothing to dis- tinguish them from those of the other nations of the peninsula. Like these, the materials they employ are varied, and are the natural outcome of the progress of time and advance in manual arts. To walls built of roughly squared blocks there succeeded others in which units were still put one upon another without mortar, with courses more or less regular, precisely as in Cappa- docia, Phrygia, and Lydia. On the other hand, the arrangement observable in the sepulchral architecture of Caria is also met with in Lydia, but nowhere else. Both south of the Mseander and in the valley of the Herrrms, the shape to which preference is given in tombs of some importance is the tumulus type, along with a covered passage and internal chambered grave. There is another correspondence : owing to the superior quality of their clay, Carians and Lydians alike largely built in brick, and were noted for their skill as potters. The resemblance between fragments of vases collected in the royal necropolis at Sardes with those that came out of Carian sepulchres is truly remarkable. Forms and colours are identical, and the principle applied to the 1 PATON, Excavations, pp. 68 and 70, Figs. 7, 11-13.