The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 207
an order (seeFig. 62). The tombs of Etruria are of two kinds, rock-cutand tumular. The first consist of stone chambers cut into thecliff, like the tombs at Beni-Hassan (Fig. 4), in Egypt;or they are similar chambers entirely excavated soas to stand free (Fig. 63), like the temples of Ellora,in… … Fig. 3.—Etruscan tomb at Caste! dAsso. are in and about the honey-combed cliffs of CasteldAsso, with walls richly decorated internally withpainting and sculpture. I liny has left us an account of the tomb of Lars TUSCAN TUMULI. I85 Porsena, of Clusium, carved in this manner about 500b. c, but the…
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