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 364 HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. its sides for the throwing off of rain water, which would damage the stores put in them. Sometimes, as in Fig. 256, the king- post is tied in at its head by the principals, where they cross at the angles ; sometimes the struts are visible in both gables (Fig. 257), so that, with the exception of the roof, the resemblance is startling between these granaries and the hut we have restored after the sepulchral fagades. Here again, both girders or wall- plates and joists, all the pieces of the timber frame FIG. 256.-Lycian store-room FELLOWS, An up to ^ fi rst story / M M Account, etc., p. 129, Fig. 2. J  are united together by scarfing, and the ends left very salient. The larger beams are found at the angles and serve as posts. Pierced above man's FIG. 257. Lycian granary. BENNDORF, Reisen, torn. i. Fig. 56. height in the middle of the fagade, is a door barred and locked, but so low that to pass within anybody but an infant must crawl.
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