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362 HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. building in question is a real house made up of beams and planks or one of those tombs hollowed in the rock, in the fashioning of which the stone-cutter tried his best to imitate wood methods. Stone as well as timber buildings, according to localities, are FIG. 253. Views of cities, Pinara. Benndorf, torn. i. Fig. 37. encountered in Lycia at the present day ; yet even where the walls of the house are of unsquared blocks of stone, united with moist clay, wood always plays an important part in the construction. The modern house is no longer a mere timber-framing, like that displayed or guessed at in the antique rock-cut tomb. The walls
