Fig. 199.—The Burj el-Bezzâk. Section (after Renan).
Fig. 200.—Chamber of the Burj el-Bezzâk (after Renan).
A sepulchral monument at Amrith, the Burj el-Bezzâk, is entirely distinguished from caves and structures of the form which we have just described; it rises above the ground, like an ordinary house, and is built, without mortar, of regular masonry, with blocks 16 ft. long. It terminated formerly in a pyramidal roof, and its full height was 52½ ft. In the interior, there are only two chambers one above the other, each communicating with the outside by a narrow aperture. Round the walls of these chambers there were numerous niches for coffins, separated one from another by partitions.
Fig. 201.—The Burj el-Bezzâk. Restoration. (Renan, Mission de Phénicie.)