Dennis, George: The cities and cemeteries of Etruria: in two volumes (Band 2) (London, 1848)

PLAN OP A PORTION OF THE PRINCIPAL STORY

POGGIO GAJELLA.

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Entrance from the south.

Antechamber or vestibule.

Recesses.

Door to the principal chamber. ^^8H

Circular chamber. ^

Column, hewn, from the rock.

Cuniculus, or passage cut in the rock, not yet cleared out.

Cuniculus, leading to chamber aa.

Original mouth of the passages.

Passages, varying in size, and inclination, but only large enough to admit a man on all
fours. At * the original cuniculus m seems to have terminated, or to have turned in
another direction ; the rest of it to * being narrower and more irregular.

Spurious mouth of the passages, opening much higher in the wall than i,
n n Cuniculi, partly unfinished, partly not yet excavated.'
p Antechamber to the group of square tombs, opening to the west.

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Chambers, more or less rude, and all unpainted, with rock-hewn benches.
In * are the mouths of the cuniculi m and n.

Antechamber to
v A tomb found filled with large stones.
aa Chamber, now encumbered with earth.
bb bb Recesses in its walls.

The shaded part represents the rock in which the tombs and passages are hewn.