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 228 HISTORY OK ART IN PIKKNICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. be found, and that placed in the middle of the floor ; in others there are three one on the left, another on the right, and a third opposite to the entrance (Fig. 157). In tombs with two chambers as many as ten and even fifteen sarcophagi have been encountered. When there was no room on the floor the last comers were heaped FIG. 155. Han of a tomb at Amalhus. From Ccsnola. 1 on the first, so that in some cases there were two and three tiers of coffins. 2 In the sarcophagi themselves there was very great variety. In one tomb was found an anthropoid marble sar- cophagus, the head on which was apparently female, and a perfectly plain limestone coffin. 3 In one of the four-chambered FIG. 156. Section through the ravine at Amathus. sepulchres, in the centre of the chamber opposite the door, a fine marble sarcophagus with each of its four faces covered by reliefs within a richly carved border was found. It was broken into many pieces, but into pieces which were easily fitted together. 1 Cyprus, p. 260. 2 CESXOLA, Cyprus, pp. 259 and 272. 3 Ibid. pp. 270 and 288.