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The Islands of the ^gean. 435 is not found side by side, as in the Argolic town ; but it may be confidently asserted that this same pattern was in the mind's eye of the builder. The arrangement upon which he fixed his choice was not suggested to him by the material to hand ; for it had been far simpler and quicker to hollow a rectangular chamber in the rocky flank of the mountain, after the fashion of his own habitation. Examination of the make and decoration Fig. 165. — Longitudinal section of the Massara tomb. of the sarcophagi, and the style of the pottery found in this grave, some pieces of which are faithful copies of those from Mycenae, will complete the demonstration (Figs. 166, 167). In the same period should be placed another sepulture, which the plough accidentally uncovered on the northern coast of the island, near Miletos, now Milato. The chamber is oven-shaped, Fig. 166. — Jug found in the tomb. rock-hewn, and characterless, barely reaching two metres thirty centimetres in length by two metres in breadth (Fig. 168). The pottery found in it permits us to set it side by side with the Anoja grave. In shape, the two sarcophagi seen in this sepulture recall our bath-tubs, and one is decorated on both faces with designs dear to the Mycenian ceramist (Fig. 169). Finally, a casket, very similar to that of Fig. 167, has come from a vault situated near the hamlet of Pendamodi, in the district of Malevisi,