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 HISTORY OF ART IN PIKV.NICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. of great power. The execution is incredibly rough. The hands and feet are not modelled at all. The limbs end in shapeless stumps. FIG. 229. Altar. Hagiar Kim. Malta. Height 38 inches. From Caruana. Hagiar Kim is not the only temple whose ruins still exist in Malta; the remains of a building, not unlike the Giganteia in its arrangements, are to be encountered not much more than half a. mile off, at a place called Mnaidra. 1 It includes two pairs of oval FIG. 230. Statuette. Height 7 inches. From Caruana. chambers, in which stand more than one of those mushroom-shaped altars which have been found at Hagiar Kim, Some remains of a still larger building exist at Bordj-en-Nadur, near the harbour of Marsa Scirocco ; 2 it was long used as an open quarry by the knights 1 CARUAXA, Report, pp. 14-17. 2 /^ p p _ 17-19.