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 Sll'YLUS AND ITS MONUMENTS. 49 enough, holes of corresponding size appear on the apex of the tumuli. The phallus is not uniform in shape far from it but evinces great variety. Among the more advanced forms are globular caps, with listel supported on stems (Fig. 18) ; elsewhere we find the usual conical ending (Fig. 19), and some few exemplars are mere cylinders with central swelling. 1 The Tantaleis tomb, as the larger and more important of the group, rises at the top of a hill somewhat apart from the others by which it is surrounded, as a monarch by his subjects. These are closely packed to- gether, connected sometimes by a wall, and one was found with two chambers. Being more lightly built than the larger tumulus, their state is even more ruinous, and treasure - seekers found less difficulty in bringing about their demolition. All have been opened from the roof or the sides, and in many instances nothing remains to mark the site but a heap of earth and rubbish. With the ex- ception of these the plan can always be made out. Sometimes it is very similar to that of the Tantaleis sepulchre, doubtless built for a king, and as such must have been taken as pattern. The mortuary chamber has been walled up after the entomb- ment, and a stone-work, set without mortar, made around it. It is intersected by partitions of channelled masonry, which, start- ing from the grave, extend to the exterior wall (Fig. 20). The 1 About half a mile eastward of the colossal Cybele are tombs, and hard by Professor Sayce noticed between two triangular niches an immense phallus figured on the rocky wall (Hell. Studies, torn. i. p. 90). The learned professor observes that the phallus in question is a stalagmitic formation. TRS. VOL. i. K FIG. 18. Terminal phallus. WEBER, Le Sipylot, Plate II. FIG. 19. Terminal phallus. WEBER, Ibid., Plate II.