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bottom of the compartments varied from 2' to 4'.
Several of them had been lined throughout with
stucco, which still remained in places. I continued
to find black lamps, and in two of the compart-
ments were terracotta figures, all representing a
young girl bearing a pitcher of water. I found
seven or eight of these figures, exactly similar in
type. Traces of colour were visible on two of
them. In Plate LX., fig. 10, one of these Hydrophorh
is represented. They are very elegant in composi-
tion, but carelessly modelled, as was often the case
with terracottas.

Within the compartments were several unbroken
ridge-tiles of an unusual length. On first exploring
this ground I supposed that the cells or compart-
ments were walled graves, which had been lined
with stucco and covered with tiles, and that, from
their position on sloping ground at the foot of a
precipice, and from the shallowness of the super-
incumbent soil, these tile roofs had been carried
away by the action of water, and the contents of
the graves disturbed and broken. But in none of
the cells was there any trace of bones, or of the
fine black earth which would have remained after
their decomposition, and which is generally found
at the bottom of Greek graves. Nor had the com-
partments the form usual in graves, several of them
being square, and too small to admit tbe body of
an adult.

The walls of these inclosures were built in the
roughest manner, without cement. The material
"was mostly rubble : squared stones, evidently from

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