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 62 HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. them. The town in question may have been Tantalis, which, according to Pliny, preceded Magnesia, and was destroyed in one FIG. 34. Tomb hollowed in the rock, near Magnesia. Perspective view. HUMANN, Ausflug, Fig. I. of those seismic convulsions of frequent occurrence along the coast. 1 The appalling earthquake of 1880 is vividly remembered by the Smyrnians, when broad masses of the mountain, being loosened, rolled down into the plain, with trees and crops adhering. In like manner Tantalis was buried in Lake Salae (now a pond at the entrance of the FIG. 35. Tomb near Magnesia. Plan. HUMANN, Ausflug, Fig. 3. sg J ea( J m a tO 1 M. HUMANN (Ausflug, etc., p. 7) does not seem to be aware that the tomb under notice was published before him by STEWART, Ancient Monuments, Plate II. The drawing of the latter, however, is so imperfect as to be worthless for the purposes of science. Weber's sketches (Trots tombeaux archdiques de Phocee, pp.