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134 HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. flirtings, are, as a rule, non-existent in the rock- cut fa9ades. 1 With this exception, the frontispiece of this tomb is that of a Greek temple ; but it is neither the temples of Paestum, the FIG. 91. Gherdak Kaiasi. Restored fa9ade. TXIER, Description, Plate LX. Parthenon, nor the Propylaea of the Athenian acropolis, which are thus recalled, but rather the slender proportions, the wide 1 For the Doric order, this is exemplified in the tombs at Paphos (Hist, of Art, torn. iii. Fig. 161), and in the Jewish tomb which goes by the name of St. James, at Jerusalem (Ibid., torn. iv. Figs. 143, 144) ; for the Ionic order, in the so-called tomb of Absalom (Ibid., Figs. 141, 142). We can do no more in this place beyond referring the reader to the monuments, illustrative of the two orders, which have been published in our former volumes.