Page:History of Art in Phrygia, Lydia, Caria and Lycia.djvu/93

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ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PHRYGIA PROPER. 77 and observations taken on the spot, and afterwards to revise the topographical sketch made from them by M. Thuillier. Each tomb has been carefully numbered so as to enable the reader to determine approximately, at least, the place each occupies in the map (Fig. 47). A first glance at the sketch reveals the fact that if the tumuli under notice are scattered all over the place, they nevertheless form two principal groups : one towards the north-east around the PHRYGIAN NECROPOLES Near the Tomb of Midas. Topographic Sketch from the survey of Professor Ramsay. Scale : v^ FIG. 47. Phrygian necropoles. Topographic sketch. Midas monument (9 in plan), and the other twenty miles to the south-west, near the village of Ayazeen. For convenience' sake, therefore, we shall follow Professor Ramsay and call them respec- tively the Midas necropolis and Ayazeen necropolis. The above appellation has no pretension to accuracy, and has no other merit than that of facilitating the finding of a particular tomb in either cemetery. The northern or Midas necropolis has been known since 1820, when it was visited by Leake, and subsequently by Texier, Stewart, Earth, Mordtmann, and finally by me. That of