318 HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. D the second tower, planted on the culminating point of the Acropolis. 1 Farther on, in front, appears a detached tower, a phrourion (guarded post) (Fig. 224). The city wall at Assarlik, of which Sir C. Newton made a drawing, offers pretty much the same aspect as that near lasus; 2 there is great ten dency to regular courses and vertical joints. It is pro- bable that we have here the most perfect style of masonry achieved by the primitive inhabitants, ere they put themselves under Greek tuition ; whilst their first con- structive attempts may be sought in a wall of this same district. It runs along the rock that forms the crest of FIG. 224. Portion of plan of Alinda. ry^fr/^ FIG. 225. Wall near Myndus. PATON, Excavations, p. 66. the peninsula, west of Myndus harbour, and descends to the sea edge (Fig. 225). 1 Cf. PHILON, Traite de fortification, viii. 6 and 13, in the translation of M. de Rocbas d'Aiglun, Principes de la fortification antique, 8vo, Duchar, 1881. 2 NEWTON, A Hist, of Discoveries, pp. 503-586.
