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420 MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS. Chap. XI.ternally, as they now stand. a is the entrance into a small square apartment in which the altar or table stands, shown more completely in the next woodcut (No. 181), from a photograph, which also renders much mere clear the peculiar style of ornamenting

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181. Entrance to Chamber B, Mnaidra, showing Table inside. (The Rod is divided into Englisli feet.)

with innumerable "pit markings," peculiar to these Maltese monuments. d is the entrance into the other chamber, which but for the interference of that last described, would have been of the usual elliptical form. My impression is that the left-hand apse was removed at some time subsequent to the erection of the monument, to admit of its insertion. On each side of the doorway are seats, c and e, which are always found in similar situations. Beyond, at f, is one of those mysterious openings which are so frequent; it is also seen with another in woodcut No. 182. Between this apartment and the upper apartment h are two tiers of shelves or loculi, which are also found at Gozo, and for which it is difficult to suggest a meaning if they were not used as columbaria for sepulchral purposes.

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