2OO HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. with the amplitude of the rock in which they are carved. The eye is forcibly drawn to their light colour, and when there, it lingers to note the skilful contrast between the polished fasciae and the sombre rugosity of the virgin rock, between the incline of the talus and the perpendicular lines of the architectonic whole. No FIG. 139. Hambar Kaia. Fa9ade of tomb. Hirschfeld, Plate II. less remarkable is the shape of the monument itself, terminating as it does in a triangular pediment, which, despite irregularity of outline, recalls the classic frontal. The Iskelib group, the last of the series, is farther away from the sea, on the edge of the central plateau. It is called after the town of the same name, situate southward of Kutch Dagh, a little way beyond the left bank of the Halys. The tombs are excavated in the depth of a huge rock, towards the base, bearing on its
