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BABYLON AND PERSIA

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LYDIA <strong>AND</strong> ASIA MINOR. 191ends of the beams that run through the building';the copy is perfect in every detail ; thus where aclosed door is represented, not only are the panelsindicated, but frequently the nails also that studdedthe original ; even the knocker. (See ill. 19.) Onedoor, or, if large, part of one, isleft open, to serve as19. LYCIAN ROCK-TOMB AT TELMESSUS.entrance into the grave-chamber behind, which, fromthe height at which these excavations are hewn in thequite, or nearly, perpendicular rocks, can have beenreached only by means of ladders, except where stepshave been cut for the purpose. There is no doubtbut that the entrance was closed with a well-fittingslab or block, but the rapacity of generations of

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