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 50 A History of Art in Sardinia and Jud^a. of the miner strikes without producing the slightest effect (Fig. 270) I K L M/ The base of the wall shows larger stones apparently used as foundations. Inside the court are two rectangular blocks built with the same concrete as the enclosure wall and slightly overtopping it (Fig. 270, A B). Either end of the court is occu- pied by one of these blocks, and a narrow space divides them from the wall on both sides. This space (R P S), of which more anon, is completely blocked up, but quite free at C C" T. Reference to Fig. 271 shows a deep regular cut on the upper face of this block. Fig. 271. — Massive Block in the Courtyard, Deunuk-tach. which does not occur in the other. To the south-east, towards the top of the wall inside, are holes at stated intervals, which seem to have been intended to receive the ends of the framing work. This, we are told, is the only part of the wall where they exist. The single entrance to the building (Fig. 270, D) did not occupy the centre of the face in which it occurs (Fig. 272). ^ Our description of this monument is taken from Langlois, Voyage en Cilicie et dans les Montagnes du Taurus^ execute pendant les annees, pp. 85, 86, and 265-285, 1852, 1853. We have also borrowed his plan (Fig. 270), albeit exceedingly defective and not drawn to scale, given in the text, but there was no other alternative. His general view of Deunuk-tach is so confused that no good could come in reproducing it. Hence we have preferred making use of two slight sketches most kindly placed at our disposal by M. Maxime Colignon, who visited Tarsus with the Abbe Duchesne in 1876, at the end of a journey in Asia Minor, Texier, from some unknown reason, brought no plan or drawing of this monument, and his observations add nothing to what may be gathered in Langlois.