[Footnote 644: The only original account of this crypt is that of General Di Cesnola, Cyprus, pp. 303-305.]
[Footnote 645: Mephitic vapours prevented the workmen from continuing their excavations.]
[Footnote 646: The length of this room was twenty feet, the breadth nineteen feet, and the height fourteen feet (Di Cesnola, Cyprus, p. 304).]
[Footnote 647: Perrot et Chipiez, Histoire de l’Art, iii. 285.]
[Footnote 648: See the woodcut representing a portion of the old wall of Aradus, which is taken from M. Renan’s Mission, Planches, pl. 2.]
[Footnote 649: In some of the ruder walls, as in those of Banias and Eryx, even this precaution is not observed. See Perrot et Chipiez, Histoire de l’Art, iii. 328, 334.]
[Footnote 650: Diod. Sic. xxxii. 14.]
[Footnote 651: Arrian, Exp. Alex. ii. 21, Sec. 3.]
[Footnote 652: Perrot et Chipiez, Hist. de l’Art, iii. 331, 332, 339.]
[Footnote 653: Perrot et Chipiez, Hist. de l’Art, iii. pp. 333, 334.]
[Footnote 654: See his Recherches sur l’origine et l’emplacement des Emporia Pheniciens, pl. 8.]
[Footnote 655: Compare Renan, Mission de Phenicie, pls. 7, 16, 18, &c.; and Di Cesnola, Cyprus, p. 224.]
[Footnote 656: Di Cesnola, Cyprus, p. 256, 260; Perrot et Chipiez, Hist. de l’Art, iii. 219-221.]
[Footnote 657: Di Cesnola, Cyprus, p. 255.]
[Footnote 658: Di Cesnola, Cyprus, pp. 255, 256.]
[Footnote 659: See Di Cesnola, Cyprus, p. 260; and compare Perrot et Chipiez, Hist. de l’Art, iii. 219, No. 155.]
[Footnote 660: Di Cesnola, p. 259.]
[Footnote 661: Perrot et Chipiez, iii. 224.]
[Footnote 662: See Ross, Reisen nach Cypern, pp. 187-189; and Archaeologische Zeitung for 1851, pl. xxviii. figs. 3 and 4.]
[Footnote 663: They are not shown in Ross’s representation, but appear in Di Cesnola’s.]
[Footnote 664: See Sir C. Newton’s Halicarnassus, pls. xviii. xix.]
[Footnote 665: 1 Macc. xiii. 27-29.]
[Footnote 666: Renan, Mission de Phenicie, p. 80.]
[Footnote 667: Renan, Mission de Phenicie, p. 81.]
[Footnote 668: Ibid. pp. 82, 85.]
[Footnote 669: See Robinson, Researches in Palestine, iii. 385.]
[Footnote 670: Renan, Mission de Phenicie, p. 599.]
[Footnote 671: Perrot and Chipiez remark that “the general aspect of the edifice recalls that of the great tombs at Amrith;” and conclude that, “if the tomb does not actually belong to the time of Solomon’s contemporary and ally, at any rate it is anterior to the Greco-Roman period” (Hist. de l’Art, iii. 167).]
[Footnote 672: See the section of the building in Renan’s Mission, Planches, pl. xlviii.]