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 THE TEMPLES OF Gozo AND MALTA. 307 It was here that the most unmistakable traces of the ancient worship, a worship in which the divinity was represented by the same emblem as at Byblos and Paphos, were found. The cone (Fig. 223) had been overturned but its site was easy to recognize. This was a sort of pavilion at each side of which stood a stone upright, like those figured on the Phoenician and Cyprian coins to which we have already alluded. Two heads, roughly carved FH;. 220. Door ay in the temple of Hagiar Kim, at Malta. in the local stone, were found lying upon the ground in the larger temple not far from the cone. Their cheeks were enframed in a long veil, and they resembled to some extent the heads on the Egyptian Canopic vases. 1 The whole building is 440 feet in circumference and eighty-eight feet in greatest length, internal measurement. Its greatest width is seventy-six feet eight inches, and its width across the outer hall 1 LA MARMORA, p. 13, and plate i. figs./, and/ 1.