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DECORATION. 129 Heliogabalus, there is figured a building with a cornice of very peculiar design (Fig. 67). Some of its elements are pure Greek, but the cornice with its convex segmental section and its vertical FIG. 67. Coin of Byblos, enlarged. From Donaldson. grooves has nothing classic about it. So far as we can judge from the representation given by the engraver it is more like some of the Assyrian entablatures than anything else. 1 FIG. 68. Elevation of the doorway at Oum-el-Aivatnid and section of the lintel. From Kenan. The openings of doors were surrounded by flat architraves, that which formed the lintel being adorned with the winged disk. The best preserved example of the Phoenician doorway which has come 1 See A History of Art in Chaldcea and Assyria, Vol. I. Figs. 41 and 42. VOL. I. S