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FUNERARY ARCHITECTURE. 367 reality is carried further. This happens when a lateral wall is added to the facade, so that we obtain a side view of the primitive Lycian house as well. Fig. 260 shows the street corner of a necropolis hard by the village of Hoiran, whose ancient name is as yet unknown, in which the two modes of representation may be observed. Now and again the effort of the copyist has out- stepped beyond this, and prompted him to disengage the long sides of the building, so as to leave only the back adhering to the cliff (Fig. 261). Though more seldom, he even went so far as to com- pletely isolate the tomb, and set free its four sides (Fig. 262). The false construction is, then, a faithful image of the house, or store, which, created by domestic archi- tecture in far-off days, was taken up by funerary architecture, and re- peated without a break for centuries. It is easy to grasp the ideas and feelings that led the Lycians to endow their tombs, on the outside, with the aspect of the house. To them, as to other nations of antiquity, life beyond the grave was but the continuation of that which man had led in the light of day. It was natural, therefore, to put him in a building which should recall that in which he had spent the days he had been allotted on earth. A curious point to be noted here is that the interior of the tomb has no correspondence with its exterior. 1 To obtain out of the living rock the members of carpentry displayed on the out- side, great expenditure of time and labour were required ; and all we find behind the faades so curiously wrought is a chamber without trace of moulding, and so low that a man could not stand upright in it. The mortuary chamber often contains three couches ; one pierced in the farthest wall, and the remaining two 1 BENNDORF, Reisen, torn. i. p. 96. FIG. 261. Tomb at Pinara. BENNDORF, Keisen, torn. i. Fig. 37.