Page:History of Art in Phœnicia and Its Dependencies Vol 1.djvu/263

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THE PIKENICIAX TOMB AWAY FROM PHOENICIA. we are tolcl nothing as to the size of these features ; we are allowed to gather that they stood before the tombs, the entrances to which were closed generally by a slab of sandstone, but sometimes by a brick wall. We are no better informed in the case of a curious FIGS. 170, 171. Sections of a tomb at Caghari. From Crespi. monumental group discovered in the same cemetery (Fig. 174), a large rectangular stele, decorated on its face with a disk and crescent moon in relief; right and left a pyramidal cippus with a double FIG. 172. Funerary Cippus from Tharros. From Spano. moulding about its summit. All three of these columns stand upon a single base. The central stele is crowned either by a pediment or a pyramidion which stands out slightly beyond the line of its face. This same triangular crown appears on those cippi on which