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 ^u HISTORY OF ART IN PIKKNICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. seem to have been two entrances, and seven apses may still be traced ; symmetry suggests an eighth which we have ventured to indicate by dotted lines. In the two principal chambers (A and n) the semicircular parts seem to have been divided from the rest. Our plan shows a line of masonry, a single course, which may either have been used to retain an elevated dais or to support a screen ; in any case, it forms a line of demarcation between what we should call the nave and the choir. If these two saloons had V $> TO^-ssc f Fi<;. 225. Plan of the temple of linear Kim, Malta. From Carunnn. no companions the plan would not sensibly differ from that of the Gigantcia; the only difference would lie in the omission of the corridor, which, in the Gozo temples, leads from one room to the other. We may be allowed to guess that the four chambers to the left of A and i; are later additions. They may have afforded accommodation for the worship of secondary deities, and to their construction may be due the disappearance of the second apse of hall B. Two of these new chambers (E and D) have recesses in their side walls, which appear to have been what we should call