[324] Wall paintings in Alexandrian tombs and at Boscoreale. Athenaeus gives a description of a tholos on the state barge of Ptolemy Philadelphos, and Vitruvius a description of a wall painting at Alabanda, which Studniczka compares with the Khazneh. Tropaeum Trajani, p. 66; Thiersch, ‘Die Alexandrinische Königsnekropole,’ Jahrbuch des k. d. arch. Instituts, vol. xxv, 1910, p. 67. A free-standing tholos, placed upon a pluteum or attic, appears upon the tomb of Absalom at Jerusalem, which Puchstein dates in the first half of the first century A.D. See Perrot-Chipiez, vol. iv, p. 279.
[325] This should be compared with Dr. Herzfeld’s drawing of the façade with conjectural restorations in the north wing. Sarre-Herzfeld, Euphrat- und Tigris-Gebiet, vol. iii, Plate 41. I doubt whether any of the columns were furnished with bases.
[326] Delbrück, Hellenistische Bauten, pt. ii, p. 129.
[327] Butler, Ancient Architecture in Syria, p. 132; east church at Bâbisqâ.
[328] Idem, p. 150; chapel at Kfair.
[329] Bronze tablet found at Ephesus and ivory diptych in the British Museum, Mschattâ, pp. 266 and 277.
[330] Pointing inwards on the apse at Qalb Lôzeh, and pointing outwards on a doorway at Bashmishli; Butler, Anc. Arch., pp. 223 and 239.
[331] Ocheïdir, p. 41.
[332] At Al-’Âshiq; Amurath, p. 238, and Herzfeld, Sâmarrâ, p. 40. Also round the windows of the great mosque at Sâmarrâ; Amurath, Fig. 142; Herzfeld, Erster vorl. Bericht, Fig. 1.
[333] For instance in a madrasah of the Ulu Djâmi’. The inscription round this madrasah is published (Amida, p. 87, inscr. No. 28), and I have the photographs, but these are not yet published.