Page:History of Art in Phrygia, Lydia, Caria and Lycia.djvu/91

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ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PHRYGIA PROPER. 75 domestic dwelling until quite recently. During the Byzantine rule, the apartment D was apparently turned into a Christian chapel. The whole pile seems to have been inhabited by a Turkish agha, who rebuilt part of the walls with small stones and covered the & s FIG. 46. Plan of rock-cut dwelling, Kumbet. From Professor Ramsay. whole with a coat of plaster. To him also should be ascribed the decoration over the mantelpieces, which Earth wrongly deemed c in Fig. 46), then the little bedroom, B (E in Fig. 46), and finally the bath-room, D" (F in the above figure). M. Perrot also makes the larger northern room, D, of the dv8/MDVTis a Christian chapel ; it is the smaller middle chamber below (marked E in Ramsay's plan) that has been used for that purpose. TRS.