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THE PHOENICIAN TOMB AWAY FROM PIKKNICIA. work thus begun by their constructors was finished by the rains, which carried down stones and sancl from the flanks of the neigh- bouring hills and heaped them upon the necropolis. The deposit FIG. 153. Tomb at Amathus. From Cesnola. 1 is thickest towards the head of the valley, where the hollow is deeper and more confined than elsewhere (Fig. FIG. 154. Tomb at Amathus. From Cesnola.' Here all the corpses seem to have been placed in sarcophagi. The number of the latter varies ; in some chambers only one is to 1 Cyprus, p. 256. 2 I take these details from a letter of General DI CESNOLA'S, who has been good enough to give us, from his notes and his memory, much of the information for which we looked in vain in his book. The shafts shown on his page 255 and in our Fig. 156 form no part of the tombs they were dug by the explorers in the course of their search. A young German savant, Dr. Sigismond, who helped to decipher the Cypriot inscriptions, visited the necropolis in 1875, and met his death by falling down one of these pits.