i8o HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. desired, or carved almost flat on applied pieces. In countries, as Switzerland, where timber architecture has never been out of fashion, the top of many a gable will be found ornamented by the volute device. The subordination of stone to lignite types, and the effort to FIG. 123. Tomb near lasili Ka'ia. Elevation. Texier, Plate LVII. imitate them, are not confined to the exterior of these fa9ades. We find them also as projecting beams of a flat ceiling in a cham- bered grave of this necropolis ; and, again, in the first apartment of a tomb westward of lasili Kai'a, whose ceiling reproduces the disposition of a pointed roof, along with its purlins, cross-beams, and covering. The tomb was noticed by Texier, of whom we
