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 370 HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. of the day, and, in summer, during the nights as well. Such appliances, however, are no more than tents sustained by stakes ; l but the ogee-shaped attic of the Lycian tomb, like the rest of the facade, is very similar to carpentry work made up of large pieces of wood (Fig. 264), such as joists, the heads of which project beyond the main rafters, with two false tie-beams and a strut FIG. 264. Tomb at Myra. TixiER, Description, torn. iii. Plate CCXXVIT. Fig. 3. properly so called, both being maintained in place by struts, exactly as in Phrygian tombs (Figs. 58, 59). Then, too, the angles and the apex of the gables are often ornamented by appendices which, both here and in Phrygia, play the part of what the Greeks 1 BENNDORF, loc. cit., p. 105. In the Biblical passages collated by Benndorf in proof of his theory, the word in the texts, to designate the construction under notice, is rendered by a-Krjvij, tent, by the Greek translators.