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 24-2 HISTORY OK ART IN I'IKI.NK i AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. same place, and sonic have found their way into the great museums of Kurope. Unhappily Sardinia, like Cyprus, has not been ex- plored on any strict system, so that it is now impossible to find out which things came from which tomb. 1 The cemetery of Tharros was pillaged rather than explored or studied ; now that it has been placed under the guardianship of zealous and competent men, few discoveries are made in it ; it is, in fact, exhausted, or nearly so. In the absence of drawings made on the spot and of circum- stantial narratives, it is very difficult to form a clear idea of the I-'tc,. lot). -Tomb at Cusjluri. I 1 ' mm I'.lcna. tombs from which so many interesting monuments have been taken. Thus we know that many of the sepulchres at Tharros have an external salient member, which is sometimes a pyramidion (Fig. i 72), sometimes a small hemispherical dome (Fig. 143), but 1 ETTORF, PALS, /.a SarJe^tm, pp. cS6, 87. SPAXO tells us th.it the chambers excavated in the rock were from 6 to 10 feet below the surface, and from 6 to 10 feet high (Sullettino, vol. vii. p. 184). The most complete work on the ruins of Tharros is SPANO'S Notizie sull' antica Citta di T/iarros, reprinted at the end of the seventh volume of the Bulletlino. See also LA MARMORA'S Ifiticraire, pp. 574-609. Care must be taken, however, to reject all the statements borrowed by Spano and La Marmora from those Codici d* Arborea of which the authenticity is now generally denied.