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158 HISTORY OK ART i PIKKMCIA AND ITS DKPKNDKNCIKS. composed, iirst, ot ;i cubical block with a salient band at top and bottom ; secondly, of a monolithic cylinder about thirteen feet high and twelve feet in diameter ; thirdly, of a five-faced pyramidion. The base is rough, the stone apparently left as it came from the quarry, and the work as a whole looks unfinished. The faces of the plinth of the second monument are parallel to those of the first. The chambers they cover also lie in one direction. It would seem, therefore, that the two monuments were made at the same time, and that one is a pendant to the other. They rise high above a large inclosure hollowed out of the rock about fifty feet to the south. The ruins of various buildings are KlGS. 96 and 97. Plan ami section of tomb al Ainrit. From Renan. sprinkled about this inclosure, among them, those of a thick wall built of large stones, traces of which are also to be found westwards at the foot of the rock upon which stand the two tombs. To the north-west of these same tombs, there are some rock-cut chambers. The whole may perhaps have formed the burial-place of some important section of the population. The third of the better-preserved monuments is much simpler than the other two. 1 Its chief feature is a monolith resting upon a double-stepped base ; it terminates in a moulding composed of a cyma recta and a fillet, above this rises a block squared 1 Ibid. p. 74 and plate 17.