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 FUNERARY ARCHITECTURE. 363 are made of dry stones held together with a little mud ; the flat roof, however, is still covered with beds of clay, and upheld by posts engaged in the wall, but outwardly free, so as to provide FIG. 254. House at Ghendova. BENNDORF, Keisen, torn. i. Fig. 49. a double gallery to the rustic house of two stories (Fig. 254). Where the dwelling has but one story, an open verandah or porch is built, sustained by a number of pillars, for the convenience of the inmates, where they can sit or move about as well The more gene- ral type is seen in Fig. 255. 1 FIG. 255. House at Ghieuben. BENNDORF, Reisett, torn. i. Fig. 26. It is not the domestic abode, then, which has preserved the primitive type as revealed in the Lycian tomb ; but curiously enough it crops up in those stone rooms found in the vast majority of Lycian villages. They differ, however, in one particular from the mcdel that forms the object of our study, in that the roof has been raised so as to slope 1 BENNDORF, Reisen, torn. i. p. 100.