Note 324 — Chapter V · THE FAÇADE
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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.