128 HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. making a drawing of the tomb. As for its occupant, he was put to death by order of Sultan Mahmoud ; and the upper story he had added to it has been empty ever since, and is rapidly falling into decay. Our illustration of this picturesque konak is from a photograph taken at the time of our visit (Fig. 83). Nothing would have been easier than to clear its base of the silt that has gathered around it, but for the fact that we found the village FIG. 84. Fa5ade of the Kumbet tomb. Drawn by E. Guillaume. Explor. ArchL, Plate VII. deserted of its inhabitants, who had betaken themselves to their tents during the summer heat, and were camping in the woodlands some two or three leagues away. Like the Midas rock and the Delikli Tach, the Kumbet tomb is no more than a sepulchral front cut in a rocky mass, the stone surrounding it being left in the rough (Fig. 84). Steps appear on the left side, but whether coeval with the tomb or comparatively recent, it would be difficult to say. Their purpose,
