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Bk. IV. Ch. V. TOMBS. 359 reappearing ten centuries afterwards in the far East, that we are forced to conehide that it belongs to a style once prevalent and long fixed in these lands, though this one now stands as the sole remaining representative of its class. 241. Toml) at Mylassa. (From "Antiquities of Ionia," published by the Dilettanti Society.) Another example, somewhat similar in style, though remotely dis- tant in locality, is found at Dugga, near Tunis, in Africa. This, too, consists of a square base, taller than in the last example, surmounted by twelve Ionic columns, which are here merely used as ornaments. There were probably square pilasters at the angles, like that at Jerusalem (Woodcuts Nos. 237, 238), while the Egyptian form of the cornice is similar to that found in these examples, though with the omission of the Doric frieze. It apparently originally terminated in a j)yramid of steps like the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, and a large number of structural tombs which copied that celebrated model. Nothing of this now remains but the four corner-stones, which were architecturally most essential to