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separate ' chapel' of mud bricks. These comparisons extend West of the
Sahara and the circles of the Senam of Msila in the Sud-Oranais, described by
Randall-Maciver and Wilkin » with their flat upright ' ring stones' and the
entrance reduced to a rudimentary niche, present essentially the same plan.

Wide dis-
tribution
in N.
Africa.

Fig. 17. Primitive Beehive Tombs : a, b, c, Libyan ; d 1-3, Ktjmasa 2, Crete.
The wide diffusion of this form of beehive tomb with an entrance
' chapel' from the Middle Nile to Southern Algeria involves the conclusion
that it was the characteristic Libyan type of sepulchre. In the course of its
later evolution, indeed, the tholos itself disappears and becomes a mere mound
1 Libyan Notes, 1901, p. 78 seqq. and PI. some such type as the "beehive" graves, the
XV, Fig. 1. The authors remark (p. 81), ' The gallery leading into the latter being here re-
plan of a Mycenaean "beehive" grave will show placed by a sort of false door above the

a very suggestive resemblance. In short, we
consider that these circles are derived from

ground.' CL, too, Bates, op. cit, p. 247.
- From plans and photograph, A. E., 1925.