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The Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos.

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also found in Tunisia.a An allied type is well represented in south-western
Sicilyb and in the neighbourhood of Palermo.0 In this case the pit is circular

* I have seen tombs of this class near Beja (Vacca). The pits were square, the side cavities
had in several cases been enlarged for later uses. Some of these tombs were excavated by Captain
Vincent (Bulletin de VAcademic d'Hippone, xvii.).

b See especially L. Mauceri, Annali, etc. 1880, 1 seqq. (Districts of Licata and Canicatti). For
the identity of the early ceramic types of south-western Sicily with those of the south-east, see
Orsi, Bull, di Paletnologia, 1895, p. 80 seqq. and cf. 1897, p. 1 seqq.

• Salinas, Notizie degli Hcavi, 1880, p. 357, and tav. x. These tombs were on the extensive
plain of Ciachia, and as Colini (Bull, di Paletn. 1904, p. 176) points out, the well form of access was
here conditioned by the flat character of the surface.