Façade of a rock-cut tomb with a capital with vertical spirals. In the Archaic period, a series of tombs imitating small temples was built in the Western Necropolis; their colonnades have Ionic capitals, which may be related to the mixed composition of this colony. Indeed, when Herodotus recounts the Reform of Demonax and divides the population into three tribes, one of them was made up of island peoples, certainly including Ionians.
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