. The life of the Greeks and Romans. Fig. 104. sarcophagi, which are constructed of simple slabs of stone, witha cover of the same material. They occupy three sides of thechamber. A grave in the isle of Melos contains three sarcophagi on each 88 GRAVE-CAVERNS IN DELOS AND CHALKE. side, which stand in semicircular niches, as is shown by the plan(Fig. 104) and the section (Fig. 105, scale = 10 metres). In other tombs the ceiling has been propped by pillars andcross-walls, by means of which the interior is at the same timedivided into several separate chambers. A burial-chamber in. Delos shows tw
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. Fig. 104. sarcophagi, which are constructed of simple slabs of stone, witha cover of the same material. They occupy three sides of thechamber. A grave in the isle of Melos contains three sarcophagi on each 88 GRAVE-CAVERNS IN DELOS AND CHALKE. side, which stand in semicircular niches, as is shown by the plan(Fig. 104) and the section (Fig. 105, scale = 10 metres). In other tombs the ceiling has been propped by pillars andcross-walls, by means of which the interior is at the same timedivided into several separate chambers. A burial-chamber in. Delos shows two pillars (a) on each of the two side-walls, betweenwhich lie small niches (b) (see plan, Fig. 106). In each of theseniches are two sarcophagi, placed one on the top of the height of the grave is 2*30 metres. The ceiling consists ofstone slabs joined closely together (see Fig. 107).
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