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420 ternally, as they now stand. is the entrance into a small square apartment in which the altar or table stands, shown more completely in the next woodcut (No. 181), from a photograph, which also renders much mere clear the peculiar style of ornamenting

with innumerable "pit markings," peculiar to these Maltese monuments. is the entrance into the other chamber, which but for the interference of that last described, would have been of the usual elliptical form. My impression is that the left-hand apse was removed at some time subsequent to the erection of the monument, to admit of its insertion. On each side of the doorway are seats, and, which are always found in similar situations. Beyond, at, is one of those mysterious openings which are so frequent; it is also seen with another in woodcut No. 182. Between this apartment and the upper apartment are two tiers of shelves or loculi, which are also found at Gozo, and for which it is difficult to suggest a meaning if they were not used as columbaria for sepulchral purposes.